THIS HAS GOT TO STOP

      I recall a few years ago, a fellow whom I knew was going to Law School. I dropped by his place; he was busy studying for something and I was waiting for his dad (some families still have those in the US). While I was waiting, I spied on his textbooks that looked interesting. It was about defending murder trial cases and written by one of the celebrity lawyers who defended O.J. Simpson (I don't recall which one). The very first chapter was all about stressing the need for the lawyer to be paid in advance; after all, if a murder trial goes against a defendant, there isn't much his attorney can do if the defendant decides not to pay him. 

   Of course, in Simpson's case, he was exonerated but died in poverty while everyone else connected to the case raked in a fortune, so his attorney's advice worked out well for the system. The Simpson Case was a perfect example of 'Justice' has been turned into an industry---one on roughly the same moral plane as predatory financial octopuses, Big Pharma, the Corporate Media, etc. Bear in mind that the Simpson Case happened in 1994; it's not as though we've had a system well-renown for its fairness and commitment to bedrock principles during the last 30 years despite the Controlled Opposition's insistence that the System has only been corrupted since Biden took office. 

  Speaking of our nominal Head-of-State, in a particularly ironic twist of fate after a weekend of hand-wringing over the Trump Verdict, his son Hunter Biden is the star of this week's Trial of the Century. Now, naturally the Controlled Opposition is arguing that, unlike the Trump Trial, there is not slightest political motivation behind bringing Hunter Biden to trial, and the fact that his dad is also running for president this year is just a coincidence. Nobody is above the law, including the President's son. In other words, let's all just flip last week's narratives because it's different now. 

   The bottom line here is that this has got to stop. By 'this' I mean the whole Lawfare Industry in general, but the politicization of the System in particular. It's bad enough outside the political sphere: the mercenary law firms, the corruption, the Media Circuses, the inequality of legal representation, etc; but people need to wake up. Elected officials are being impeached on a regular basis; show-trials are concocted against political opponents, elections are being decided in Courts. The problem has gone beyond the guilt or innocence of this or that person: the System itself has become a criminal enterprise. 

   One would think that the Trump Verdict would result in demands from the Right that Lawfare be stopped once and for all and meaningful Judicial Reforms---reforms with teeth---would be forthcoming, but apparently not.

    Unfortunately, as the above tweet shows, we don't really have a Conservative Movement based upon principle: what passes for a Conservative Party today is merely Reactionary Politics. Statements like that one spell it out clearly. The Right is not interested in a Justice System based upon impartial equality before the Law; they want the same unaccountable power for themselves to employ against their own perceived enemies. 

   I'm not arguing here that the criminals on the Left shouldn't be held accountable for their crimes. They should be ejected from power and reforms put in place to keep the kinds of abuses of power they've committed from happening again. However, that's not what these pundits on the Right are calling for. What they really want is the same system with different people in control of it to "give the Democrats a taste of their own medicine." It is an attitude based not upon a desire for Justice but upon envy of those wielding arbitrary and irresponsible power and the desire take that power to lord over others in the same way.

  Worse still, what the reaction on the Right is suggesting is an escalation of the Strategy of Tension---an escalation because, in the case of Lawfare, it is employing the very purposes of Law as a weapon against the foundational principles of Law. The Strategy of Tension encourages social upheaval and division to build consensus for a strong Government; but when that chaos is sown within the Justice System itself, the end result can only be an even more brutal and repressive Judiciary.

    Given though that the current system is both politically and financially profitable, and that the American Public holds courtrooms in a superstitious, almost reverential awe, the chances of meaningful reform of any kind are slim. So until we see a change of public attitudes---where courts become a venue of Justice again instead of a public display of the worst elements in human nature---injustice will be the New Normal while the lawyers and judges laugh all the way to the bank. 

SEEING THROUGH THE SMOKESCREEN

     So, in the aftermath of this week's Trial of the Century, Americans are reacting. Some are celebrating the decision, others are faking outrage, and the majority are most likely stocking up at the Marijuana Dispensary and eagerly following the really important news stories,

   

   The verdict in the Chad Daybell Case even ranked higher than the Trump Case did. The bright spot is though that at least that case wasn't a miscarriage of justice even if did take four years to accomplish. Still, one would think that political show-trials in America, a situation in East Asia about to spiral out of control, and the ongoing genocide in Gaza would be higher priorities. 

  To try and generate some interest in the American political situation, the hyenas in the Corporate Media are trotting out the usual experts painting lurid scenarios of Right Wing Extremist violence. The Whacko Left, of course, is well-known for its peaceful acceptance of its opponents' positions and never engages in violent public rages or in any way ever condones extremist actions of any kind. Meanwhile, the Controlled Opposition is excited because they think that the Trump Verdict is going to be the Magic Bullet that turns the American Public to embrace the Red Wave. Lockdowns, mandates, race riots, stolen elections----none of those things did: but this verdict will. 

    I've been hearing this baloney from the American Right ever since the Waco Massacre in 1993. By gosh, if those Liberals push us any further we're going to get reallllllly mad! Not to say that the Right is doing nothing: they're holding another Congressional Hearing over the Trump Verdict next week. Nothing about addressing our broken Legal System and proposing meaningful reforms: instead they're going to give two New York City officials---over whom they have absolutely no jurisdiction---a serious tongue-lashing. No word yet as to whether the Congressional Committee will be wearing diapers to show their solidarity with the Cause. Since June is now officially Pride Month in the Prozac Nation, they can even wear rainbow-colored ones to show their wokeness. 

    In a toxic culture like ours, it's important for people to remind themselves that we're living in abnormal times. This is why it is so important to be grounded with others of like mind in a community, because we all need positive reinforcement desperately. Getting stoned on the High Times Flavor-of-the-Month or taking the Red Pill and becoming an aloof Alpha Superman is exactly what we should not do. The sociopolitical collapse we're experiencing today is a direct result of Americans abandoning their sense of responsibility to others and focusing exclusively on themselves. While such attitudes produce an efficient Corporate bureaucracy and an aggressive consumer base, it contributes very little in the interests of Civilization. 

    When a Society is based on a Cult of Power and Personality and the majority are focused on getting from it everything that they think that they're entitled to, it logically results in the kinds of absurdities we see around us today. Twice now in the last three decades presidents have been indicted for sexual impropriety while at the same time it's seriously being debated as to what constitutes Torture and Genocide. Suicides and overdoses are running rampant among American youth while our 'leadership' thinks that social media and access to tobacco products are the greatest threats to young people. Violent street scum are terrorizing our cities and towns while we worry about Chinese weather-balloons drifting into American airspace: and so on. 

   We have to reject this nonsense and come back to an understanding that there are Moral Absolutes in the Universe, whether the settled science or public opinion chooses to recognize them or not; they are still in operation. That fact should be both our consolation and our hope. 

OUR LEGAL SYSTEM IS CORRUPT? WHO KNEW!

     It's hard to believe that only as recently as the Reagan Administration and the immediate years following that Judicial Reform was actually considered an issue in the Republican Party. Reading through the Controlled Opposition's commentaries on yesterday's Trump verdict, one would get the impression that travesties of Justice, Trial-by-Media, kangaroo-court Show Trials, and general corruption in our Legal System only started happening yesterday. 

    Consider that in the last month the GOP-controlled Congress (which has already smashed all records for inquisitorial hearings) criminalized protests on purely political grounds. Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, recently pardoned a convicted murderer on Politically-Correct grounds. Abbott also openly defied the Supreme Court on many occasions. Even Trump himself, just last weekend, offered to commute the sentence of a convicted drug-trafficker on political grounds. The complaints of such people about the legal travesty in New York yesterday rings a little hollow. 

   Also quite hollow is the refrain from all these bowtie-clutching Neocon pundits who had no idea that there are any problems with our Legal System. They seem to have forgotten the abuses of power that happened as long ago as the Clarence Thomas or Robert Bork Hearings. Or maybe how that great champion of the Constitution, George Bush Sr. eviscerated the 5th Amendment with Asset Forfeiture Laws and the 8th Amendment by ruling that trying someone Criminally and Civilly for the same crime was not 'Double Jeopardy.' People found innocent at a legal trial (e.g. the police officers in the Rodney King case, O.J. Simpson as early examples) could be convicted at a Civil Trial and imprisoned. 

   The Thomas Hearings, the King Verdict, and the Simpson Case also brought big-money media into the Judicial Process. Since then, we've had show-trials in everything but name. Long-gone are the days when crusading journalists were analyzing the relative justice of these high-profile affairs: now they act as cheerleaders egging on the lowest elements of society for clickbait and higher ratings.

  What went wrong with our Justice System and why are there no (sincere) calls for reform? The same thing that went wrong with most other American institutions: it became an industry. Underneath all of the pomp and decorum and the fake appeals to 'tradition' and 'Rule of Law,' our Courts are nothing but another market selling a commodity---or more accurately, a racket run by a few insiders willing to sell 'justice' at very high prices. The rise of the Security and Surveillance State and the Prison-Industrial Complex and so-called 'legal specialization' in our Law-School enterprises have made what these Neocon hypocrites are now calling the "fairest justice system in the world" into a multi-billion dollar system of socially-approved extortion and domestic terrorism. 

   Anybody who dares lift a voice and demand real Judicial Reform is denounced as soft on crime or advocating a two-tiered system, depending on which side of the Official Narrative he encounters. Both factions of the Uniparty like the Status Quo because the moneyed interests profiting off the system fund both of them. 'Crime' today is centered heavily on whatever each side defines as Politically Correct. Political Correctness was a term devised by Vladimir Lenin who, like today's Liberals and Conservatives, felt that Legal formalities shouldn't stand in the way of an agenda.

   

    The actual principles of Justice are of no use to the Ruling Elite: the vast majority of them would be in jail themselves if Laws actually were applied fairly and impartially. However, legal circuses and trial-by-media suits their purposes perfectly. Such things are part of the Strategy of Tension whereby the public is divided both by perceived lawlessness and actual injustice, the ultimate goal of which is to drive the public into the desperation of seeking the protection of an authoritarian system. That strategy is working too: witness the public reaction to the Trump Trial Judicial-Media Extravaganza. Having no opinion makes one an ignorant dunce; having the 'wrong' opinion (depending on who's asking) makes one a 'threat to the rule of law;' saying that the System itself needs to be replaced makes one a tin-foil hat Conspiracy kook---at least both sides can agree on that.

   Unfortunately, besides having no political will to change, America has no public will to change either. The American public holds the Legal System in absolute reverence and judicial verdicts have the gravity of a settled science pronouncement from equally-corrupt Academia. There's an enormous emotional investment among the American public regarding the supposed sanctity of our Courts which has been reinforced by decades of propaganda portraying these slimy judges and lawyers as paragons of professional virtue dedicated to the pursuit of Justice. Lawyers of the stereotypical Honest Abe Lincoln types disappeared from this system long ago and probably wouldn't be admitted to the Bar in this day and age. The fact that most Congressmen and State Attorneys-General are products of the Legal Establishment ought to be proof positive of the level of character needed to succeed in it: but this obvious conclusion is lost on contemporary Trash Culture.

   Sadly, too, there is also a strong public economic investment in the Status Quo. Lawfare has become something of a cottage industry, though a few States have taken measures against the general public poaching on the Legal Establishment's private domains. Some sharpers have figured out that the financial costs and negative publicity involved in fighting a frivolous lawsuit induces many institutions or businesses to succumb to extortion agree to an out-of-court settlement for a tidy sum. The Gay Mafia had a lot of success against the Catholic Church with this tactic and we've also seen how the Zionist Lobby has used it against universities to curb pro-Palestinian student movements. 

   The best that most of us can do at this low point in our history is to avoid entanglements with this System as much as humanly possible. If one has assets that some larcenous lawyer might get his eyes on, make sure that they are protected. Don't go to law unless it is absolutely necessary. Above all, don't fall into the trap of thinking that the System will dispense any kind of Justice (assume the opposite and thank God if you come out of it unscathed). Finally, do not fall for the propaganda that holding one's nose and voting for this Party or that Party will change things materially in any way. 

 

    

   

   

THE TRUMP VERDICT: WE SHOULD SAY WHAT?

     So, this year's Trial of the Century concluded in New York, a city that was once the symbol of a great country; and what we told readers nearly a year ago would happen did. The deposed President of the United States was tried and convicted of doing essentially the same thing that former President Clinton was tried for in 1998: having an affair and lying about it when he got caught. In our postmodern New World Order, anything (officially) considered sexual impropriety is held by the Ameroboobs to be a greater crime than anything else. Being accused of that in America not only effaces a lifetime of good works; actual crimes---no matter how egregious or heinous---are typically hand-waved off as good business or smart politics. 

    Our friends at Vulture of Critique are, as of this writing, been the only ones who've bothered to ask the question that the Media should be asking: What was in the jury instructions? We'll probably never know (for National Security Reasons, of course); but if we to hazard a guess, it was probably a montage of what has happened to other high-profile and lesser-known personalities who didn't do what the Deep State asked them to do over the last few years. I'm sure that all through the 'trial' jurors were reminded subtly that even a former President wasn't above the law beyond their reach. 

   

    The Controlled Opposition---which has expended infinitely more time and energy defending Israel than it has defending its own candidate---predictably is clutching its collective bowtie and pretending to be outraged over the verdict. "Today is a shameful day in American history! House Speaker Mike Johnson fumed, “The American people rightfully see this is lawfare, and they know it is – and dangerous,” although Johnson largely owes his current position to Lawfare and colluding with the Democrats. 

   Tucker Carlson managed to blame the verdict on illegal immigrants. "Import the Third World, become the Third World!" Carlson commented. "That's what we just saw. This won't stop Trump. He'll win the election if he's not killed first. But it does mark the end of the fairest justice system in the world!"---as if the corruption in our Legal System only started last year---and adds: "Anyone who defends this verdict is a danger to you and your family."---as if anybody on the Right actually cares about threats to the American family. 

   Anyone interested in reading a flurry of this kind of hypocrisy can find a collection of it at the Log Cabin Republican site, Breitbart News. Julie Kelly, of Fox News, said about the only sensible thing among the entire punditocracy: "Republicans stood silent for 3 years as Biden’s DOJ/FBI investigated, raided, charged, prosecuted and incarcerated 1,400+ Trump supporters for Jan 6. They not only tacitly endorsed it but funded it. Of course this unprecedented conviction of Donald Trump would be the natural result. Today's verdict is as much an indictment of GOP weakness and cowardice as it is the lawless Marxist tendencies of the Democrats."

    Exactly. Those who rig elections will have no problem rigging trials. Voices like Julie Kelly's are drown out, though, the mass-denialism that the True Believers in the 'Conservative Movement' routinely engage in. They've learned nothing from any of this: “Either way, the real verdict is in November!” proclaimed WEF Young Global Leader and potential VP pick, Vivek Ramaswamy. As if we can expect a fairer election than 2020 was; or that the same people orchestrating this trial aren't going to have any say over the electoral outcome in November. 

   Trump's legal problems and Republican complicity in them is by design. The lack of any support from the Party has opened a channel for Bush Machine-connected billionaires to step into the void and buy influence. Shortly after the verdict was announced, Shaun Maguire of WEF-connected Sequoia Capital plopped a $300,000 mega-donation to the Trump Campaign. Earlier today, it was reported that Tech Lord Elon Musk and Bush-Machine mega-donor Nelson Peltz were holding meetings with the campaign for top advisory positions. Peltz also serves on the Board of several of the WEF's corporate Strategic Partners, just as many of Musk's operatives are active within the apparatus of the Great Reset, and many WEF operatives work within Musk's Corporate Empire. 

     The True Believers aren't going to be convinced of any of this. Sex scandals---which is all that this legal farce was really all about--- are an obsession in this culture, so expect more lurid, soft-core media 'analysis' to surface as the verdict gets appealed---along with a few allegations of various sexual improprieties against Democrats just to get even. Lost in all of this will be any focus on the real problems facing our nation and the Great Reset will go marching on. 
      

   

A THREE-DAY WEEKEND IN UPSIDE-DOWN CLOWN WORLD

      So Memorial Day sort of happened. It's supposed to be the unofficial start of Summer, but here on the West Coast, weather conditions seemed closer to mid-March. As for the Veterans, they seem to be getting much older and much fewer in numbers. There's nobody left from WW1, a handful from WW2 and Korea, and all of the Vietnam Vets are collecting Social Security and VA Pensions. There are some veterans of the endless wars that the Pentagon has fought since Bush announced the New World Order in 1990; but they don't seem quite as proud of their 'service' as the older guys. 

    Surprisingly, the annual celebrations commemorating Whacko Left martyr George Floyd seemed unusually quiet; but Clown World was high gear nonetheless. The holiday coincided with the Jewish festival Lag B'Omer which typically includes celebrations with bonfires. The Israeli Government celebrated by firebombing a Palestinian refugee camp, burning alive an unknown number of civilians. The New York Times promptly echoed the sentiments of Neocon pundits that people calling such actions genocide are a bunch of anti-Semitic meanies. Pope Francis apologized to the Gay Mafia for the Church being 'homophobic' meanies too. 

   Strange alliances happened at home too. The President-in-Exile addressed the Libertarian Party Convention, and despite considerable pandering to the crowd failed badly to get their endorsement. Independent Candidate Robert Kennedy fared even worse; and the LP nominated a homo activist who formerly campaigned for Obama and supported mask mandates. 

   Meanwhile, following the Pentagon's ignominious defeat in Yemen, Head-of-State Biden addressed our brave xhes in uniform in Arlington to the effect that, despite our Pentagon's problems with attrition rates, gender dysphoria, obesity, crime, addictions, and suicide; our Military is still the toughest on the block. Not to be outdone, the Controlled Opposition dispatched shady Congressman Mike McCaul to Taiwan to throw some more gasoline on the smoldering coals, assuring our Deep State's puppet-leader that he can rely on the manly Alpha leaders in Congress to have his back.

    In the midst of all of this chaos, Jeff Bezos' propaganda organ The Washington Post took time to lament that a growing number of Chinese citizens no longer have positive opinions about the United States. Bezos blamed the Chinese Media for this situation, complaining that the Chinese Press doesn't promote American Exceptionalism to the degree that ours does. "Chinese individuals are now favoring the Chinese brand Luckin Coffee over Starbucks, opting for Huawei phones instead of Apple, and no one says the moon is any different when seen from the US now," the Post complains, "extensive coverage of American political polarization and public safety issues by Chinese media has led to the US losing its soft power advantage in China."

    Lue Xiang of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences explained the obvious to the Chinese Media in response: "The US has always claimed to be the 'beacon of democracy,' but Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to achieve their own interests through exercising democratic rights. Issues such as identity politics, social division, and wealth disparity are becoming more serious, and drug abuse has become an almost incurable problem in the US. The political polarization and poor social governance in the US have left Americans feeling hopeless, and the overall decline in social governance has made the beautifully packaged 'American Dream' appear pale and powerless." 

   America's sociopolitical leadership should be saying that in this Election Year and coming up with solutions to these problems---which seem obvious to everyone else. This is probably a reason why, for example, the Chinese Media could have headlines today about opening a new high-speed rail line while ours could only focus on sleazy political sex-scandals. 

    The events of the 2020s in the United States increasingly suggestive, in fact, of some kind of collective nervous breakdown. In 1935, Dead White Male W. Beran Wolfe wrote an article about the situation in Germany which has some unsettling parallels to the United States today.

    "A defeat of the striving for superiority, a loss of face, subordination and subjugation in an individual lead to the condition usually known as a Nervous Breakdown. Germany is having a nervous breakdown at present...The pattern of a nervous breakdown is simple. One fails in a critical situation because one's 'private logic' has been knocked out by the superior forces of Common Sense, the force of Reality. One goes through a brief panic, and as one recovers from the immediate sting of defeat, one builds up an alibi. If you can, you can save face by hanging the blame on a convenient scapegoat. The mechanism of a nervous breakdown typically crystallizes in some simple device whose neurotic nature is apparent to everyone but the neurotic...Once this pattern has crystallized, nothing else matters. Reason is thrown to the winds, reality is excluded from consideration. The neurotic believes that by protesting loudly enough, he will communicate his own self-deception to the rest of the world." 

    We certainly can see this pattern in operation in the contemporary United States. The illusion of a Silent Majority of dyed-in-the-wool American patriots was shattered by the Color Revolution in 2020. Denying the Reality that the so-called Conservative Leadership largely was responsible for the collapse of our Republic, Americans clung to the illusion of an impending Red Wave. As this never materialized, scapegoats (e.g. immigrants, the Chinese, 'anti-Semites,' etc.) were promoted. The crystallization is apparent in the utter disconnection from Reality in most political antics, as described above, and which have been noted here on a regular basis; and the fact that this neurotic behavior has been broadcast with considerable hysterical hyperbole from the Punditocracy is proof the dynamic going on here. 

   Wolfe also points out that sexual perversion and obsession is symptomatic of these tendencies: "Himself a homosexual, one of Hitler's first acts was to burn the works of Magnus Hirschfeld {a psychologist of the last century who studied homosexuality in-depth} who may have known too much and exiled him from the country. Freud, too, whose teachings would point uncomfortably to the  psychosexual infantilism of the men who govern German destinies was also treated to a literary auto-de-fe." We see this symptom leeching out into the public discourse as well; holding up the likes of Bruce Jenner and the latent-homosexual Red Pill types like Andrew Tate and Doug Wilson as spokesxhes for the cause. 

   This again points to the fact that there is no political solution here. America's problems are spiritual in nature: we need to come to grips with Reality---not seek escape and evasion---and take responsibility for self-government again.

   

THE SAD STATE OF POSTMODERN CONSERVATISM

     In this Election Year Show, two stories were circulated among the Controlled Opposition Media---one with considerable fanfare and the other discreetly ignored. Going along as though things like stolen elections, staged riots, Color Revolutions, and political persecutions of dissidents aren't really happening, the American 'Conservatives' are gushing over the prospect of a November Red Wave despite repeated humiliations---with or without interference---for the last three straight years. Removing the Democrats and continuing their tyrannies and usurpations under different management is their only objective at this point. 

    Apparently because of the widespread perception that there aren't enough extremists supporting the Republican cause, the President-in-Exile addressed the notoriously depraved Libertarians at their convention this weekend. The Libertarians are hardcore Social Darwinists. They oppose Government tyranny, but celebrate Corporate tyranny; oppose Government Militarism but are fine with private armies; and on social issues they firmly espouse unrestricted hedonism. Their position is basically the same as that of those favoring the Great Reset, only without the Virtue Signalling.

   The Conservative-Industrial Complex has been courting the Libertarians for some time. One of their icons, WEF Agenda Contributor and President of Argentina Javier Milei spoke at a recent CPAC Meeting to rave reviews. In addressing the crowd, the President-in-Exile won their support by promising to commute the prison sentence of another Libertarian icon, Ross Ulbricht. Ulbricht was jailed during the Obama Administration, and didn't come to Trump's notice during his entire four years office; but that hasn't stopped the True Believers from exploding with glee over the announcement. 

   "Do you remember Ross Ulbricht?" one opines. "He had website called Silk Road that was an e-commerce platform similar to eBay, where consenting users chose what to buy and sell as long as no third party was harmed. Although legal items were sold, it was mostly used for buying and selling drugs, most commonly small amounts of marijuana. For this, the Obama reign of terror put Ulbricht in jail for the rest of his life." The FBI, however, had a slightly different opinion on the subject.

   Robert Kennedy also spoke at the Convention, pointing out the Uniparty's role in the Scamdemic and crimes related to Big Pharma, but was roundly booed.

   

      The other big campaign rally, which---for obvious reasons---got less attention was staged by Bush Machine sock-puppet Ron DeSantis in Florida. Enlisted in this cause was dual Israeli-American Robber Baron Isaac Perlmutter who is organizing a new Super PAC to line the RNC coffers and buy influence. Perlmutter has amassed a huge fortune, mostly by bankrupting companies and escaping with a Golden Parachute. Unlike Ulbricht, Perlmutter has always managed to stay one step ahead of the authorities, though he came very close to getting caught when his double-dealings at the Veterans' Administration came to light.

     To the True Believers, all of these concerns about courting extremist elements, pardoning criminals, and taking bribes from billionaire Oligarchs are only peripheral issues which magically will sort themselves out once we're rid of the Democrats. Cultivating this attitude is precisely what the Republican Establishment is counting on. This is why they've taken a united front to foment discontent, hunt scapegoats, and push a narrative while avoiding and discouraging any discussions of what their actual solutions might look like. This is because they really have no solutions: the illusion of saving the country is all that they have to sell. 

    

   

THE POSTMODERN RIGHT AND POLITICALLY-CORRECT CRIME

      We might all remember around last Christmas the story of a failed Congressional candidate and one of our brave xhes in uniform named Michael Cassidy. Cassidy went berserk in the Iowa State Capitol and attacked a paper-mache statue representing Satan which was being displayed there by some activists on the Whacko Left for whatever reason. Cassidy's trial finally concluded yesterday with a plea-bargain down Malicious Mischief and an $855 fine. 

     Cassidy soon became a great hero to the Postmodern Right: he can well afford to pay the fine since the fundraisers for him went well into six figures. In fact, he raised almost as much money from that incident alone than he did during his Congressional run. There was considerable howling from the Controlled Opposition that even that sentence was too mean. Destroying statues on public property and such is only bad when Liberals do it. Our side really has become the Trash Culture we wish to destroy.

    Though both Cassidy and his supporters have spun the narrative to portray him as a patriotic American hero overcome with holy zeal, that the whole thing was a publicity stunt is obvious from the facts surrounding the case. It worked too: Cassidy is now a wealthy man and a celebrity besides. In our culture, doing and saying outrageous things and generating controversy is the ticket to success: it's the bold action that counts, reasoned argument, not so much. Even crimes as serious as murder can get a free pass if it's Politically Correct these days. These things ought to give us some pause to reflect upon what kind of Justice Americans can expect if a Red Wave somehow comes to power this year. 

    Granted, there should have been no Satanic display in the State Capitol. Countries better governed than ours understand the threat that dangerous religious cults hold and take measures to suppress them (as ours used to do). However, just like in the cases of both crimes and social issues, the Postmodern Right maintains a double-standard when it comes to cults. The Moonie Cult, the Falun Gong, and Christian Zionists all are not only embraced by the Postmodern Right; they actively work with them in promoting agendas and crafting policy. This is not even counting some of the abominable positions taken by Reactionary Christian sects. 

    Due largely to the Groupthink cultivated by the Conservative-Industrial Complex, many on the Right are blind to how far our side has degenerated into a mere copy-paste version of the Left. Some are waking up to this fact. The problem with most True Believers, though, is that they have a mistaken view of the goals of political and social activism. Defeating the Left, for many of them, has become an end in itself and the means to do this---and what they plan to do afterwards---are irrelevant to that end. This is a very dangerous approach: we saw in the last century that based and Red-Pilled parties like the Nazis did in fact save their country from Bolshevism and made Germany a major power again; but the price for that was very high. We need to be better than the Left: not their equals in depravity. 

   We can't let that happen here---and most of all, we must guard against the type of denialism which imagines that it can't. Some of the statements coming from supposedly 'mainstream' Conservatives. and some of the dangerous fanatics approved of and promoted by their top pundits is proof that it can. We should remind ourselves of a quote from one of the prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials:

   "This verdict illuminates one of the most shattering truths that has emerged from this trial. If all of the leaders of the Third Reich had been sadistic monsters or degraded perverts then the events described here would have no more moral significance than an earthquake, or any other natural disaster; but what this trial has shown is that, under the threat of a national emergency, ordinary---and even able and extraordinary---men can delude themselves into the commission of crimes so heinous that they stagger the imagination. No one who has sat through this trial can ever forget them: men sterilized for political beliefs, a mockery made of friendship and faith, the murder of children. How easily it can happen."