Answer

What is Communism?

Communism is a manifestation of the Rule Of Force.  Those who advocate Communism are saying that the system in the state of Cuba isn’t real Communism.  Those who make the difficult crossing from Cuba to Florida are saying that the system in the state of Cuba is real Communism.

Why?

Those who advocate Communism are perfectly free to emigrate to Cuba.  But they wouldn’t benefit from the force used in the Communist system.  Civilization is the process of removing force from common life.  The advocates of the Rule Of Force are fighting back.  We, the advocates of Civilization, must oppose them.

BLM like the NSDAP and the CPSU before them are advocates of the Rule Of Force.  We have no choice but to treat BLM as the Enemies Of Mankind they actually are.

Quotes Of The Day

'Gay Pride' parades: You know you live in a great country when "oppressed" people have big, colorful parades.

A favorite Leftist saying sums up the whole of Leftism: "To make an omelette, you've got to break eggs". They want to change some state of affairs and don't care who or what they destroy or damage in the process. They think their alleged good intentions are sufficient to absolve them from all blame for even the most evil deeds

In practical politics, the art of Leftism is to sound good while proposing something destructive

Leftists are the "we know best" people, meaning that they are intrinsically arrogant. Matthew chapter 6 would not be for them. And arrogance leads directly into authoritarianism

Leftism is fundamentally authoritarian. Whether by revolution or by legislation, Leftists aim to change what people can and must do. When in 2008 Obama said that he wanted to "fundamentally transform" America, he was not talking about America's geography or topography but rather about American people. He wanted them to stop doing things that they wanted to do and make them do things that they did not want to do. Can you get a better definition of authoritarianism than that?
 

-- Dr. John Ray 

Update 1400 CST: My neighbor in APT# 2312 is playing music as loud as believes he can get away with.  I have to wear two layers of hearing protection to simply exist in my own APT.

Opinions

If you'll pardon me for doing an impression of a moonbat:

"But wealth is evil and suffering is good and we must make every sacrifice possible for the good of the planet/trees/peat moss..."

One should never underestimate The Leftist capacity for spinning bugs into features. 

Those who oppose the right to say NO should be treated as Enemies Of Humanity they actually are.

Opinion

Commerce has been part of Human life since someone discovered that anyone could trade their better quality stone knives for some decently processed bear skins.  Commerce is one of the things that separate us from the lower animals.  An attack on commerce by the green creeps (or Socialists in general) is an attack on Human life in general.

Question And Answer

What is The Rule Of Law?  

The Rule Of Law is a radical idea.  Prior to The American Revolution America was ruled by the whim of a British monarch*.  The Democratic Party (and their goon squads such as Anti-Fa and BLM) want to replace The Rule Of Law with the whim of a mob.  Collectivist States such as The Third Reich, The Soviet Union, The Peoples Republic of China, etc, were installed by a mob.  We need in treat the advocates of mob rule (and the advocates of rule of whim in general) as the Enemies Of Mankind they actually are.
                       
* I have serious difficulty in believing the we dumped the British monarchy to be ruled by a bunch of morons.

 

Personal History

I made a reference to Monty Python's Life Of Brian when I wrote Friends In High Places.

https://freelancetraveller.com/features/stories/fihp/fihp08.html

Opinions

We need to start treating Leftists as the monsters they actually are.  Of course Leftists want to disarm us.  To The Left, every word of dissent or refusal is a sentence of death.  Every pistol and rifle in the hands of a private citizen is a weapon pointed straight at their heads.  Someday, we're going to have to pull the triggers.  Without the sword they'll take away your pen.  Without guns they'll take away your butter.  This isn't an either/or choice. 

I've carried firearms across multiple state lines when I moved to and from North Carolina.

 The open Anti-Semitism of The Democratic Party has become obvious.

Questions

Do any of the self proclaimed opponents of Fascism actually what Fascismo is?  Do any of the self proclaimed opponents of Fascism actually know that they're actually practicing the doctrine of Fascismo?

 

To Hell with the State.

Personal History

I managed to put in references to both The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Shock Treatment in part nine of Friends In High Places.

https://freelancetraveller.com/features/stories/fihp/fihp09.html

Opinions

The Mainstream Media makes Herr Doktor Goebbels look honest in comparison.  Message to The Media: when you're caught lying, you gain the reputation of being a liar.  It becomes increasingly apparent that the word "journalist" is now synonymous with the word liar.

National Holiday

On this day in 1620 some colonists celebrated the survival of their own stupidity.  The Pilgrims were Christian fanatics.  As a result they believed everything Jesus Christ preached including the doctrine of Socialism.  As economic equality is actually impossible the Pilgrims would've died off.  But the Native Americans intervened and fed the Pilgrims then taught them how to grow food.  Only a fool or fanatic could believe in the doctrine of Socialism.  Ayn Rand said that Thanksgiving was a celebration of successful production but was it actually necessary?

Update: The verdict on the Rittenhouse Case is just a start.

Opinions

Friends In High Places shows The Official Traveller Universe from the Rosenkranz and Guildenstern point of view.

Friends In High Places

The National Socialists and the Khmer Rouge believed they were good guys.  We need to treat BLM like good guys, in the Nuremberg fashion.

Fact

I can't call Mr, Baldwin a moron because that would be an insult to morons.

 

Suggestion

The very first act that every individual performs upon enlisting in the Armed Forces of the United States is promise to uphold and defend The Constitution.

For the Army the oath of enlistment was this:

I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. (Title 10, US Code; Act of 5 May 1960 replacing the wording first adopted in 1789, with amendment effective 5 October 1962).

All of us who served in the Armed Forces made this promise to the nation.  The time has come for us who served (or are serving) to keep the promise.  It’s clear to every rational observer that Joe Biden was absolutely unfit to hold any public office.  It’s clear that he possessed no valid understanding of human life and of the government that protects it.  As President Joe Biden has acted as an adversary to the nation and a friend to our enemies and to Humanity as a whole.  There’s no question that he’s absolutely unfit to occupy the office of President and must be removed.  There’s no question at this point that the Armed Forces must step up and remove Joe Biden from office.  We need a military coup right now.

Opinions

If one is using force then one is likely wrong.

The persecutor in the so called Rittenhouse Trial needs to be treated as The Enemy Of Mankind that he actually is, in the Nuremberg fashion, from the neck until dead.

Lesson

We've seen the control of the educational apparatus by The State in the Third Reich!

 

History Lesson

Something most folks don't realize is that the "grunge" look that was popular was actually invented by the German Communist playwright Bertholt Brecht. This comrade had a West German publisher, an Austrian passport, a Swiss bank account, and an East German theatre company with hot and cold running actresses.  Nice work if you can get it.

Question And Answer

Q.  Why did the Dems lose in Virginia?

A.  The fake ballots were printed in China and they’re all still stuck on a ship waiting in LA harbor!

Opinion

I was having a conversation with someone when I mentioned Epstein’s Island and the possibility Joe Biden was a frequent visitor.  I was flabbergasted when he asked if such and island exists and couldn’t it just be another fake news created by the extreme right.  It took a few minutes for me to realize he wasn’t joking. That he actually believed there was no such island.  Tragic really.

Anniversary And National Holiday

On this day in 1918 the First World War ended.  In the United States this is Veteran's Day.

Suggestion

Members of BLM believe they're victims and practice Racial Collectivism.  Gee, Gosh, Wow, where have we've seen this before?  If BLM wants to practice Racial Collectivism, let's threat them as racial collectivists.  In the Nuremberg fashion, from the neck until dead.  Antisemitism in politics is the practical equivalent of a dead canary in a coal mine, I can't say this often enough.  Antisemitism is a subset of Racial Collectivism.  We (Humanity) have to condemn all forms of Racial Collectivism.  We have to identify Black Lives Matter as the Racial Collectivist group that it actually is.  We have to see that Antisemitism is a symptom of a deeper philosophical problem.  So when someone attacks Jews they're attacking all of us.  Antisemitism is a clear sign that all of Humanity is being attacked.  Rejection of Racial Collectivism shouldn't be a radical idea. 

 

Birthday

The age of sixty one hits me today.  I"m now qualified as a dirty old man.  On this day in 1960 I was born.  There were no signs and portents in the sky and the most important thing to happen on that day was a performance by a garage band from Liverpool in a West German strip joint.

A copy of The Sensuous Dirty Old Man by "Doctor A" (Issac Asimov) would be nice.

I'm so old that I remember when Saturday Night Live was actually funny.  I'm so old that I remember when The Blue Danube was just a waltz and not the soundtrack for spaceflight.

 

Suggestion

Given the open antisemitism of the Democratic Party I wouldn't be surprised some Jews are leaving the party.  Is it necessary for them to join the Republican Party?

No.

Perhaps it's time to start a new political party.  Is a new political party possible?  The answer is that I don’t know.  The opponents of chattel slavery proceeded even with public opposition.  As opponents of political power have to.  We need to treat exercises of political power, such as censorship, as crimes against Humanity.  We need to treat bans on firearms and free speech as the anti-Human acts that they actually are.  Our political elites have apparently forgotten the lesson taught by our original civil war, that banning freedom doesn’t work.  Our political elites tried to ban the voluntary consumption of alcohol, it didn’t work.  Our political elites tried to ban the voluntary consumption of hard drugs, it doesn’t work.  Our political elites will try to ban the voluntary ownership of firearms and freedom of speech, it will never work.  Our politicians are supposed to do a specific job and they aren't doing it.  We have to start a new political party to go around them.  We don't have a choice.  Let's call our new party the Freedom Party.

Anniversary

Today is the anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.  Kind of fitting given that the doctrine of the so-called Democratic Party is basically National Socialism without the Aryan frills.  (Although anti-semitism seems to be making a comeback.)

Anniversary

On this day in 1917 something very bad happened in the city of Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) of the former Russian Empire.  Even though the doctrine of Communism has been proven to be a load of toxic nonsense they're still true believers who're trying to impose it upon us.  Apparently 100 (+) million dead isn't enough.  Progressives have set the world standard for stupid since this day.  Since Lenin's coup d'etat (where he and his goons overthrew a democratically elected government) in 1917 the Soviets and other empowered followers of Marx have through starvation and deliberate homicide killed no less than 110 million people, including no small number of helpless children.  That's more than 3200 deaths a day on average.

I've said this for years and I will continue to say it: The advocacy of Communism is the advocacy of mass murder.  There's simply no excuse for anyone to continue to publicly call for the establishment of a political system that has on average killed over 3,200 people a day since Lenin's coup d'etat in November of 1917.  And the death toll continues to rise in Cuba, Mainland China, and North Korea. 

Peter Cresswell on the Bolsheviks and their coup d'etat:

The Bolsheviks were pissweak murdering liars. About the October Revolution, there is nothing—not one single thing—to celebrate.

And the hat tip for this quote goes to Dr. John Ray.

 

 

History Lesson

What was the Halifax Explosion?

The Halifax Explosion occurred during the First World War.

What happened?

The Halifax Explosion was the result of a collision between the S.S. Emo and the S.S. Mont Blanc.  The master of the S.S. Emo didn’t believe the rules of seamanship didn’t apply to him.  If the master of the S.S. Emo followed the rules of seamanship the Halifax Explosion wouldn’t have happened.

The rules apply to everyone without exception.

Opinion

I'm not a Christian but I agree with this statement.

 

Oops!

I never ended the "Lone Sniper" thread.

https://freelancetraveller.com/features/stories/fihp/index.html

Rule

 It's easy to anger a Scientologist, just tell the truth about L. Ron Hubbard.

Opinions

It's safer to be at a convention of the National Rifle Association than to be in the presence of Alec Baldwin.  It appears from my perspective that Mr. Baldwin isn't accepting responsibility for his own actions.  Joe Biden very likely won't have sense enough to not provoke a military coup to restore The Constitution.

It's Happening Again

 Why did The Holocaust happen?

The actual author of the Book of Genesis actually had a point: Evil often presents itself as Good.

The Holocaust wasn't a unique event.  The Holocaust (and other horrors) were the result of normal people acting normally.  Why did a particular horror happen?  There's an answer but you may not like it.  A horror happened because the perpetrators believed they were good people with their victims and opponents being evil.  We've seen this before with numerous horrors and it will happen again.  What we're dealing with are people who believe they're good people.  We have to deal with them as such no matter how horrible the things they actually do.  Many of the people who’re loudly proclaiming “never again” are going to do it again.  The National Socialists and Soviets believed themselves to be good people, we're seeing the same phenomena with Anti-Fa.  Anti-Fa claims to be opposed to Fascism no matter what they actually do.  Anti-Fa does the things that Fascists actually do.  Members of Anti-Fa will believe the lies they're told regardless of the consequences.  Members of Anti-Fa claim to oppose Fascism, in fact they're what Fascists are.  Most members of Anti-Fa don't know that they're following the dictators handbook.  Most proponents of tyranny, such as members of Anti-Fa (National Socialists, Soviet Communists, etc.) believe they're good people and that their opponents are evil.  If a dogma requires the commission of a vile act then that act WILL be committed.  When someone denies their own Humanity then they WILL commit crimes against Humanity.  It's very easy to predict what a self appointed opponent of Fascism will say.  Just take a mouth dropping of a National Socialist and replace the word Jew with the word Fascist.

Those who don't remember history are a highly sought after group of followers.  We identify The Holocaust as the horrible act it actually was.  And we should be horrified.  But we're seeing The Holocaust from an objective perspective.  From the subjective perspective the perpetrators of The Holocaust saw themselves (apart from some psychopaths) as being good people doing good things with their victims and opponents as being evil.  We're seeing this again with the Marxists who make up the membership of Anti-fa.  They see themselves as being good and their victims as being evil.  I've said this before: Killing a Marxist isn't an act of murder, it's an act of self defense.  I have a warning for members of Anti-fa, when you Brownshirt someone, don't be surprised that you're treated as a Brownshirt.  I've found through direct experience that the opposition really believe they're the good guys.  If a member of Anti-fa wants to see a Totalitarian, all they have to do is look in a mirror.  Totalitarians are never hiding under the bed, they're in plain view.  For those who value power no act is too vile.  Killing a member of Anti-Fa isn't an act of murder, it's an act of self defense.  Members of Anti-fa should be engaged with aircraft like the AC-130 and A-10.  A Fascist isn't who the self styled opponents of the doctrine believe they are.  WE HAVE THE DUTY to see the self described antifascist as they truly are a National Socialist piece of shit who should be hanged from the neck until dead.  And WE HAVE THE DUTY to identify the Mainstream Media are a bunch of liars.  Once a difference in opinion is criminalized a civil war is inevitable.

Voltaire said it: Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.

I have a question for members of Anti-Fa and BLM: what part of "Never Again" didn't you understand?

Why don't we assassinate Joe Biden and/or Kamala Harris?  Because their assassinations won't solve the problem.  The actual problem is a culture that holds the rights of individuals in contempt.  The assassination of Biden and/or Harris won't solve that problem.

(Thanks to Mark Urbin@No Moss Here for the images)