Statement On The Firing Of Gina Carano

The thoroughly unpleasant fact of reality is that the Disney Company (and Hollywood in general) is run by a bunch of unimaginative twerps.  It's the kind of mentality that wants to maximize profits but is unwilling to try something distinctly new or different.  Thus the glut of sequels and the ongoing cinemisation of the successful television series.  Even if the project isn't a sequel or a series adaptation, they'll still attempt to reduce risk by only combining elements that appeared to have worked in the past.  Thus The Adventures of Pluto Nash, a movie that combines the elements of Eddie Murphy, Computer Generated Imagery, with the Sci-Fi environment, and still turns out to be an unwatchable piece of crap.  (When I saw the trailer at the 2002 Convergence, my thought was, oh its Moon Zero Two: The Next Generation.)  

Question And Answer

On what grounds can those who deny The Rights of Man can claim protection the under those very same rights?
 
None whatsoever.

Thoughts Of The Day

They don't know what they're doing.  Instead of objectively observing the real world and thus learning how to master it.  Leftists willfully ignore the facts of reality and stumble about in a surreal fog from error to error and to ultimately stumble about from disaster to disaster.  Leftists openly state their desire to rule over the whole of Humanity and then proceed to conclusively demonstrate that they're totally unfit to do so.  Voting doesn't legitimize anything.  I'm now totally dependent on the welfare state, but as long as I'm still alive I will remain an advocate of Individual Liberty, live with it.  A difference of opinion isn't an expression of hatred, live with it.  There's a clear difference between resorting to force and responding to force.  Some people want to erase this difference.  Reality remains real no matter how many votes are cast.  There's a point where one has to think.  So what? 

What is an aristocrat?  An aristocrat appears to be a person who believes that an act of legislation forbidding the exercise of physical force to benefit themselves doesn't apply to them.  

I'm so reactionary that I believe that a non-volitional physical attribute (such as race or gender) should be politically irrelevant.

When I was a pizza delivery driver I saw a large photograph of John Kerry pasted on an automobile as it were an Eastern Orthodox Christian icon.  During the same job I saw a yard sign for Paul Wellstone attached to the wall of a union hall as it were an Eastern Orthodox Christian icon.  We’re not facing a political faction, we’re facing a cult.

We have to remember that Joe Biden is an idiot.  An intelligent person would never run as a Democrat.  We have to also remember that many Democrats regard themselves as intelligent people.

The alternative to civilized political discourse is political violence.  Many people on the Right side of the political isle (myself included) may actually be more radical than people on the Left side of the political isle.  I have an adversarial attitude when posting on the internet, live with it.

On Pacificism

I would argue that disarming isn't an action resulting from a good intention, but from a bad one.  Because an individual, or a group, can choose to obtain their survival and well being through the use of force against the productive persons or groups it's necessary for the potential victims of such violence to be armed and mentally prepared to to respond with force.  Peace is simply the absence of enemies.  It's the state of being where one isn't subject to the will of a hostile power, be it an individual, a group, or a nation.  In practice, peace can only be obtained through the forcible suppression or outright destruction of the aggressors.  To obtain peace an individual or a nation must have superior firepower and the will to use it.  In order to avoid being subject to the will of aggressors those persons or nations which disarm themselves must enter into a dependent relationship with those who remain armed.  Disarmament is therefore not an act resulting from a good intention.  At best a pacifist is a parasite.  In present practice most pacifists morally condemn the act of self defense and therefore become accessories to acts of violence carried out by aggressive individuals, groups, or nations.   In effect, they've become part of the problem.  And as a rule I favor including pacifists in the solution to the problem of aggressive violence.

Most Peace Activists don't realize that they're supporting evil people or states.
 

An Old Review Of ATLAS SHRUGGED

This book review was originally published in Volume 2, Number 3 of THE RESISTER. Price and book service contact information should no longer be accurate.




Atlas Shrugged. Ayn Rand. Penguin Group, Penguin Books USA, Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014, USA. ISBN 0-451-17192-6 Paperback. vii + 1084 pages. 1957. $7.99.

Reviewed by
D. van Oort


Atlas Shrugged is the opus magnum of novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand, and is the first work of fiction to be reviewed in these pages. Its theme is the role of the mind in the affairs of man. Atlas Shrugged illustrates this dramatically and memorably by showing just why, for the first time in history, the men of ability should go on strike against the advocates of incompetence and the purveyors of envy, and what will happen when they do.

"Who is John Galt?" Throughout Ayn Rand's brilliant expose of the decline of the industrialized west disguised as a novel, this is the question that pervades every page. "Who is John Galt?" is not a question, it is a smear spit out by every incompetent, every altruist, every hater of intellect who demands to know how competent men dare to be competent, how selfish men dare to despise altruism, and how intelligent men dare hold the willfully ignorant in contempt. "Who is John Galt?" is the unspoken demand by the mob that men of competence, ability and intelligence serve them as slaves. "Who is John Galt?" is the sneer muttered by stock-yard animals who cringe before the individual who denies the collectivist-altruist premise, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

The heroes of Atlas Shrugged answer the altruist-collectivist demand for their servitude by refusing them the one thing the altruist-collectivists cannot shackle--their minds. This resistance is beautifully stated by the hero of Atlas Shrugged, John Galt, when the collectivists demand that he return to "do something" to save a world they are willfully destroying:

"We are evil, according to your morality. We have chosen not to harm you any longer. We are useless, according to your economics. We have chosen not to exploit you any longer. We are dangerous and to be shackled, according to your politics. We have chosen not to endanger you, nor to wear the shackles any longer. We are only an illusion, according to your philosophy. We have chosen not to blind you any longer and have left you free to face reality--the reality you wanted, the world as you see it now, a world without mind."

Atlas Shrugged is set in a despicable near future, one much nearer today than when the book was first published in 1957. From the beginning, Atlas Shrugged was denounced and slandered by critics from both the socialist liberal appeaser and conservative Buckley-ite compromiser schools. Precisely because its theme is the role of the mind; because its scenario is a world increasingly of, by, and for the mindless; because it illustrates so beautifully the types of ideologies that lead to power blackouts in New York City and the creativity that leads to the discovery of new types of energy; because it predicted events and policies that have occurred since, and because it is the story of the most intractable of resisters on strike against those very ideologies, events and policies that are choking the life out of us today--this book is not dated. Indeed, it is prophetic. Atlas Shrugged is coming of age with a vengeance.

Throughout the novel, John Galt, defying every disgusting premise of altruism and collectivism travels the country on a mission of sedition to recruit true capitalists to his strike. In response to demands that he return with "the men of the mind" he defiantly states:

"All the men who have vanished, the men you hated, yet dreaded to lose, it is I who have taken them away from you. Do not attempt to find us. We do not choose to be found. Do not cry that it is our duty to serve you. We do not recognize such duty. Do not cry that you need us. We do not consider need a claim. Do not cry that you own us. You don't. Do not beg us to return. We are on strike, we, the men of the mind."

As with any legitimate work of fiction, Atlas Shrugged projects an ideal. So why would the ideal productive genius, Francisco d'Anconia, destroy his copper mines and become a useless playboy? Why would a brilliant young philosopher, Ragnar Danneskjold, sail the high seas as a pirate, waylaying ships transporting looted capital to various "People's States"? Why would the most brilliant of them all, John Galt, whose greatest invention is looted by the unworthy heirs to the once-great company he worked for, wage a clandestine war against the world by removing the men most hated by it? Why would the heroine, Dagny Taggart, after struggling against the combined efforts of the world to destroy her transcontinental railroad, vow to kill this man, and upon breaching the strikers' security, meet him and fall in love with him?

And what kind of new ideology would they forge from the ashes of two thousand years of mysticism, altruism and collectivism? What will be the greatest gift they give to the world, they, the ideal who are only concerned with themselves? This is their gift:

"We have granted you everything you demanded of us, we who had always been the givers, but have only now understood it. We have no demands to present to you, no terms to bargain about, no compromise to reach. You have nothing to offer us. WE DO NOT NEED YOU."

Atlas Shrugged is a long book, a great read for a long winter. But be warned; Atlas Shrugged is much like these pages it is reviewed on, because not everyone can handle it, and not everyone would like for you to read it. In spite of that, it is proper that Atlas Shrugged repeatedly tops the Book of the Month Club's bestseller list, because the type of person who reads this book is the type who makes his decisions on his own, for his own reasons, and for his own benefit.

If you have reason to seek a real literary masterpiece, and if you think you can benefit from a genuine ideological challenge, follow the tale of a few great men and women in a mindless world of "People's States" and cringing appeasers, as they launch the ultimate resistance movement for the ultimate reason, and stop the motor of the world.

Atlas Shrugged will reward you like no other book known to this reviewer. It will do so with entertainment, suspense, one hell of a premise, and a few years worth of things to think about.

But don't take my word for it. Judge for yourself.

Atlas Shrugged may be ordered from: Second Renaissance Books, 143 West St/PO Box 1988, New Milford, CT 06776. 1-800-729-6149 (orders only).

 

Leftism In Action

Why do I constantly feel like I'm tied up and gagged in the back seat of a car driven by someone who insists on driving on the wrong side of the road and who responds to the appearance of oncoming traffic by denying that it exists and stomping on the accelerator pedal?

We need to realize that Woke Culture isn't awake and Political Correctness isn't correct.  We need to realize that the other side is cheating by our rules and respond accordingly.  We need to realize that the other side values political power and will stop at nothing to obtain it.  We need to realize that to the other side no act is too vile.

We need to realize that John Dewey, the creator of the American educational system, was one of them.  Using our children to subvert our nation isn't too foul for them.  We need to extract Dewey's influence from the education of the children.

Update 1439 CST:

The occupant of apartment 2312 continues to make noise.  He apparently doesn't care about the effect he's having on other people.

Thoughts Of The Day

Our opponents call themselves Progressives but in fact they're Reactionaries.  The latest idea they've had originated in the Stone Age.  The idea was simply beating up people and taking their stuff.  The Left can't deal with reality because in reality they're the bad guys.  They're constantly trying to live off the work of others thus they have to control their "livestock" by force.  Since reason tells us that such behavior is morally intolerable they're left with emotional whining as their means of justifying their actions and allowing themselves to feel good about it.  Any refusal to accept the emotional bullshit and obey the self appointed masters is automatically translated on the emotional level as something to the effect of "die motherfucker!"

Inherent in Socialist doctrines implicit premise that the mere human being is an animal without a mind, or a soul, and thus without rights.  It should be treated as such by the ideal Socialist state.  If there's anyone who has a right to be offended at such public utterances it's the victims of Socialism.

Of course the Socialist believer is going to be offended when the truth is spoken.  Socialism is in practice the destruction of persons and entire societies as a whole.  Socialist  doctrines are the lies that the Socialist must tell himself in order to avoid the self realization that he's in fact a thief and a murderer.  Of course the truth is going to hurt their feelings.  So what?  A Socialist isn't bothered in the slightest when one of them publicly incites a mob to murder elected officials and their families because the officials are upholding and defending the Constitution to which they have sworn.  The Socialist sees this as normal and acceptable behavior.  But because the Socialists can't, or won't, believe in a higher standard of behavior.  They will freak out every time they see a bunch of farmers or other citizens get together for some target practice in fear that this is the mob that's coming after them.

In order to live each man require accurate information in order to make correct moral decisions. Valid knowledge is like food and oxygen, a necessary requirement of human life.  Because the range of the senses of each individual is limited, men have through the practice of verbal (and later written) communication and used communication with each other as a means of extending the range of their own senses.  Thus improving their own prospects for survival.  Societies that value knowledge will generally tend to be more economically and technologically advanced than those societies that devalue knowledge.  Whenever a military confrontation occurs between Rational states and those ruled by the Irrational, the Rational as a general rule, will prevail in the struggle.  As we see our own right to life as sacred, then we must see the Truth as nothing less than sacred.  Those who demand that we ignore the Truth or would forcibly prevent us from learning the Truth should be treated as nothing less than Enemies of Mankind in General, to be dealt will as wolves are. 

What we need to get through our collective heads right now is the fact that the age of politics as usual is over.  No more compromise, no more deals. no more bipartisanship.  There must be a radical clean up of the mess that The Left has created.  The partisans of Socialism must be systematically removed from our public institutions.  If we're to have a future as the core nation of our civilization we must make a special effort to clean out the Augean Stables that our educational establishment has become under the tutelage of The Left.  We must with volume and clarity tell the spoiled brats who imagine themselves to be the heirs of Marx and Lenin to grow up or get out.  Of course, if those idiots would just die, it would be nice too.  At this point it wouldn't be nice, it would be absolutely necessary. 

Is Free Speech an example of Hate Speech?  Only if the opponent of facts hates the truth. 

Obituary

Rush H. Limbaugh III has died of lung cancer at the age of 70.  I used to listen to Limbaugh on KSTP-AM 1500 when I worked at a parking ramp in downtown Minneapolis along with publishing online and contributing to The Resister.   The initial Wikipedia article mentioned his immortal soul going back to Hell, the pejorative has since been deleted.

A Moron I Encoutered

Once upon a time ago I purchased a coffee cup at a gun show with this image:

I took it to my place of work, at the time I was the security officer on the night shift at the former Midway Hospital in Saint Paul and it was converted into an office building for the Health East Care System.  Apparently someone saw the coffee cup with the image on it and felt threatened by it.  Can you believe that?  The site supervisor for the security department had to ask me to remove the cup from the site.  And we let these morons vote?

Thoughts For The Day

A proper Atheist accepts responsibility for their own life.  The concept of the Collective Will appears to be an excuse for a person to not accept responsibility for their own life.  The concept of the Collective Will appears to be a substitute for the concept of God.  Atheists have a bad reputation because some of them openly support tyrants. 

The idea of a steady-state terrestrial climate is pure nonsense.

When one fights for their own life, ONE NEVER USES THE QUEENSBERRY RULES.

Bad people often think of themselves as the good guys.  Might (or in cases of Biden and Harris, the appearance of same) doesn't make right.

On Democracy

I've disparaged Democracy numerous times on this blog.

Why?

Democratic government is a contradiction in terms.  To govern is to politically restrain.  Democracy allows or excuses unrestrained political action.  Everyone who attended infantry basic training at Fort Benning (a.k.a. the Benning School For Boys) was taught that there's no such thing as an effective excuse.

The claim of Joe Biden to be democratically elected as President of the United States is complete nonsense.  The legal removal of Biden from office or his assassination won't solve the problem.  The actual problem is a culture that holds the rights of individuals in contempt.  A single removal or assassination won't solve that.  The fencing around the national capitol building and the deployment of soldiers during the "inauguration" of Joe Biden was completely unnecessary.

The legal murder of Socrates by a Democratic vote is clear evidence that the Democratic process is wrong.  The gain of political power of Adolf Hitler by a Democratic process is clear evidence that the Democratic process is wrong.
 

Thoughts Of The Day

Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.  Some people don't understand the concept of volition.

The monsters are never hiding under the bed, they can be seen in the bathroom mirror.  Killing a member of Anti-Fa or BLM isn't an act of murder, it's an act of self defense.  A non-volitional physical attribute should be politically irrelevant.  Some people on the Left side of the political isle apparently don't understand this.

Enemies Of Humanity (like big name Democrats) should be hanged slowly with a steel wire.  They should suffer, but our Constitution clearly forbids cruel punishment.  But they (like big name Democrats) deny the validity of our Constitution.

If there's one thing we leaned through direct experience in Twentieth Century it's that Peace is never priceless.  The price of Peace is never paid by any pacifist.  The price of Peace is paid by the members of armed forces.  I once a member of the United States Army when pacifists were banging their drums at the main gate of Fort Benning to feel good about themselves.

I was fired from Pizza Hut Delivery for not following instructions.  Why?  Because the training manager and management in general were idiots.

Once force is openly used against those who speak out against the Left then the gloves will come off and force WILL be openly used against the Left.  Once the Left openly repudiates the rules for living in a civil society then their victims will no longer see themselves as subject to those same rules.  Or to put it another way to the Left, break the rules of civil society and you will leave us no choice but to break you.  It's called a civil war.  Cars with bumper stickers, tee-shirts, and other examples of open posturing will make target identification very easy.  What part of "Liberty or Death" does the Left persist in not understanding?  It's generally considered to be bad form to advocate violence against someone simply because of their political views.  But if some Leftist thug finds himself staring at the muzzle of a rifle it is because the stupid Leftist put himself there. 

Once books are burned, people will eventually be burned.

Personal History

 I'm so old that I remember then George Takei hadn't come out of the closet.

A member of the John Birch Society once told me that monsters are never hiding under the bed, they're in plain view,

Ideas In Action

One of the ideas gifted to us by George Orwell is the concept of Newspeak.

What is Newspeak?

From my perspective Newspeak is where words are used in opposition of their actual meaning.

Orwell used as a fictional example where the INGSOC party proclaimed that Freedom was Slavery and that War was Peace.  We're seeing this today where those persons who proclaim themselves to be progressive are in fact reactionaries.  The only people who have a valid claim to being progressive are an insurance company.

Those who proclaim themselves to be Liberal are in fact enemies of Liberty.  Those who proclaim themselves to be good guys are in fact bad people.  We saw this historically with the membership of the KKK, the CPSU, the NSDAP, the Khmer Rouge, The BATF, Al Quida, etc.  We're seeing this today with the membership of Anti-Fa and BLM.

Quotes

“History doesn’t always repeat itself.  Sometimes it just screams, ‘Why don’t you listen to me?’ and lets fly with a big stick.”

— John W. Campbell, Jr.

“And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.”

— Spider Robinson

“You won’t learn much about capitalism at a university.  How could you?  Capitalism is a matter of risks and rewards, and a tenured professor doesn’t have much to do with either.”

— Jerry Pournelle, PhD

"Better see the Reds dead."

— Ayn Rand

Needs

We need to understand that Karl Marx didn't work and his ideas don't work.  We need to understand that Karl Marx didn't invent Socialism.  We need to understand that Marxism has a total failure rate.

 

 

We need to understand that Anti-Fa and Black Lives Matter are Collectivist groups.  We need to understand that Black Lives Matter is a Racial Collectivist group along with needing to be identified as and dealt with as such.
 

Thoughts For The Day

Auschwitz was built and operated by altruists.  It's the people with an ego, and thus a conscience, that defied the National Socialist agenda of racial extermination.  

Most members of Anti-Fa wouldn't know a Fascist if they saw one in the bathroom mirror.

It doesn't matter what anyone chooses to believe, Reality is always there.  "A is A," live with it.  There are those who state that the philosophy of Objectivism is immoral.  My response would require the use of obscene language.  I'm often accused of disparaging Democracy.  Hello?  Reality is real, and the facts aren't subject to a majority vote.  Might doesn't make Right, live with it.

We're now living in a dictatorship.  In ruling by executive order, Joe Biden has effectively become a dictator.  There's the censorship thing too.  Joe Biden's fate has already been decided, he needs to hang from neck until dead.  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 indivduals in contempt.  The assassination of Biden and/or Harris won't solve that problem.

When a difference in opinion is criminalized a civil war is inevitable.

Admission of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

I'm old enough to remember when Yoko Ono actually sang on an Apple Records album.

Questions

Do you want to deal with an American federal government that's subject to a written supreme law?  Or do you want to deal with an unrestrained mob state which was empowered by false votes and subject only to the will of the leader?

Suggestion

Our Constitution explicitly forbids torture.  The Enemies Of Mankind (such as the Mainstream Media) declare the Constitution to be invalid, fine, let's crucify the lot of them. 

Another Step Back, Part 4

January 15, 1976
Washington, DC, United States of America.

President Richard Milhous Nixon hated the Uptimers.

The Uptimers made numerous changes on their own.  Other people made their own changes.  The Black Monday massacre, the slaughter of students at the Holland Elementary School in North East Minneapolis, including the future author of The Concept Of Government, by some Black Panthers.  The Uptimers had their own response to these atrocities.  The Black Panthers and the Democratic Party at the federal level were exterminated by the Uptimers.  The Uptimers lasered from orbit every home owned by George Soros, they really hated him.  Senator Edward Kennedy was tied up and placed in the back seat of a used Oldsmobile.

"Say hello to Mary Jo for me."  Evelyn Boatman said as he shoved the used Oldsmobile out the back of a lander.

The Uptimers exterminated several groups, including The Church of Scientology.  The Uptimers also hated the Communist Chinese, even more than they hated the Democrats.  President Nixon would never visit Chairman Mao in Peking as he was killed because of the Uptimers.

Starship Owl, Beyond the orbit of Neptune.

The hyperdrive was rebuilt according to the instructions of a reincorporated Englishman, Stephen Hawking, and reinstalled.

"There's your problem."  He said.

The mixed crew of Uptimers and Downtime American volunteers were about to do a test jump.

Starship Eagle, Geosynchronous Orbit.

The second incarnation of Ayn Rand ran about the sick bay while she was watched by Doctor Alice Boatman and the first incarnation of Ayn Rand.

Thoughts For The Day

To us who aren't under the influence of Kant and in fact value our lives, a call for an act of murder has to be taken literally.  There's simply no other morally valid option.  Punishing a man for an act he didn't commit is unjust.   Imprisoning a man for speaking the truth is tyrannical.   Disarming the citizens, who're the sovereign authority of the nation, is treason.

Everyone ages and eventually dies.  Unfortunately I'm condemned to witness the beginning of the Second American Civil War.  What some people will call the Second American Civil War The Reformation.  In fact we're in the opening stages of the Second American Civil War.  Those who walk the path of power are destructive and have to be destroyed, there's simply no alternative.

George Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning, not as an instruction manual. 

Antisemitism in politics is the practical equivalent of a dead canary in a coal mine, I can't say this often enough.  We have to see that Antisemitism is a symptom of a deeper philosophical problem.  We should treat Antisemites as the Enemies of Humanity they actually are.

Paulette Cooper and Shelly Miscavige were punished for simply doing their jobs, this is wrong.  Revolutions happen (real revolutions, not Marxist ones) because the state does something wrong.  Treating Scientology as a valid religion is clearly wrong.

The French used to have a positive military reputation before June of 1940, the Dien Bien Phu thing didn't help either.

Some people are complaining about the Communist Chinese treatment of some Muslims.  Uh, no.  When oppressors are fighting oppressors we should just stay out of way.

Some Liberals can't get a cup of coffee right.

Thoughts For The Day

You need to look at your own actions.  Perhaps you're the problem.

I found though direct experience as a pizza and taxi driver that Democrats didn't tip.  Those people don't identify what's necessary to be good, they just want to feel good.  Many of them believe that because they're Democrats that they're automatically good and therefore they don't have to tip anyone.

To Joe Biden and his political comrades progress consists of disarming the citizen body, of denying the rights of free citizens and instead treating those rights as state granted privileges while imposing increasing restrictions on the acts of speech, peaceful assembly, association, commerce, and worship.  The political state toward which Biden and his political comrades, in both the Congress and the Courts, are propelling America is a form of despotism similar to that found in Communist states such as Cuba, North Korea, China, and Vietnam.

(And if you really want to have fun, try comparing the platform of Biden’s party to the twenty five point program of the National Socialist German Workers Party, sans the aggressive military and race planks.)

Instead of being the party of Democracy, Biden and his political comrades are in fact the party of despotism. When they object to the overthrow of a foreign dictatorship they're simply showing that they care for and have compassion for their ideological kindred.  If anything, the foundation of their political philosophy has not progressed beyond the moment when for the first time a wandering band of nomads came upon a community of farmers and instead of learning to farm and settling down themselves chose to subjugate the farmers and live off their labors.

Although the methods of predatory subjugation have improved over the millennia, Joe Biden and his political comrades are in my view no more than stone age savages.  They're hazards to us, our families, and our nation.  It's about time that they're dealt with as such.  If I had anything to say to a person with a shred of decency it's this, walk away from the Democratic Party, right now.  Republicans should walk away from the Republican Party.  (Such as Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.)  (I've made a proposal.)

Can we now do away with the polite fiction that the Democratic Party is a legitimate political faction and start treating it like the gang of traitors and thieves that it really is?

In Stock

Once upon a time ago about the time I was posting the ASCII text versions of The Resister on Usenet I bought an AK-47 chambered in 5.56 NATO.  It had the thumb hole stock mandated at the time by our masters in Washington.  As a former combat rifleman I took it upon myself to properly zero in the sights on the weapon.  As I was doing this at the Moon Valley range down in Eden Prairie I was rudely interrupted.  It appeared that a scraggly young man wanted to sell me a folding stock for the AK-47.  I said no.  He repeated his offer.  I repeated my refusal.  Eventually he got the point.  I actually had no interest in a folding stock for the rifle.  The folding stock for the AK-47 series rifle is copied from the MP-38/MP-40 series of machine pistols issued by the Wehrmacht.  They're inherently unstable and were used both by the Wehrmacht and the Soviets to shorten the weapon for carriage within an aircraft or armored vehicle.  An acceptable trade off for them but not for me.  Second, folding stocks at the time were illegal.  I wasn't about to ruin a weapon by installing an inferior stock simply for the sake of disobeying our self appointed masters in Washington.  The proper way to deal with a master is to air out his head.  By his demeanor and his insistence on selling the stock to my unwilling self I concluded that this fellow was a stooge for the BATF.  I refused to fall into the trap.  A simple bit of common sense can go a long way.

Thoughts Of The Day

It took less than a term for Barack Obama to replace Jimmy Carter as the worst American president.  It took less than a week foe Joe Biden to do the same thing.  (I'm so old, the United States Army was still issuing the M1 "Steel Pot." as a helmet when I was in it.) 

Those politicians who prefer to feel that they're on the side of progress (but who in fact haven't had an original idea since the Stone Age) are invariably envious of the profits made by major corporations.  So much so that at every opportunity these self styled guardians of the common worker will levy a new tax on corporate profits to the thunderous applause of the ignorant masses.  The dirty little secret that the lords of The Left and their sycophants in the Mainstream Media refuse to tell their victims is that each new tax levied on a major corporation has absolutely zero impact on corporate profits.  The fact of the matter is that taxes levied on business are part of the cost of doing business and are passed on to the consumers of goods with the services created by that business.  A tax on corporate profits is in fact a tax on you.

The National Socialists prevented us from seeing the Soviets as they actually were, a bunch of slavers and mass murderers.  

As to active opponents of national defense, apart from those creatures who sexually molest children, I think there's no one more depraved or despicable than a politically active pacifist.  But that’s a rant for another time.  What we call the Peace Movement doesn't understand reality.  Peace, Freedom, and Security, are three words rational people use for the same phenomena, the absence of someone imposing their will on them.  Rational people have no use for those who proclaim themselves to be pacifists.

When I used to write for The Resister I wrote a feature called the Moral Decision Game in which the would-be patriot insurrectionist had to deal with an anticipated moral problem.  The situation that I presented in the proposal for the feature involved unarmed pacifist demonstrators blocking a choke point.  When I showed the proposal to my landlady she asked me how she was supposed to clean the blood and gunk off of the tank treads.

I could go on about what I really think of peace activists but I'll keep it short by paraphrasing Keith Richards: I don't have a problem with shooting peace activists, I only have a problem with the police.

Conscience and Liberal are two words that don't go together.

Date Of Birth

 Ayn Rand was born on this day in 1905 in the city of St. Petersburg in the Russian Empire.

It's Happening Again

The Holocaust wasn't a unique event.  The Holocaust (and other horrors) was 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.  The National Socialists and Soviets believed themselves to be good, we're seeing the same phenomena with Anti-Fa.  Anti-Fa claims to be opposed to Fascism no matter what they 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.

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.

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

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

 

Quote Of The Day

Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

--George Orwell

Thoughts Of The Day

No act is too vile or lie too great for those who value political power.  That Joe Biden and Kamala Harris legitimately won the election is such a big lie that only the Mainstream Media could only report it.  Taking The Oath Of Office has apparently become an empty ritual.  If The Oath Of Office actually meant something, Joe Biden's only act in office would be to blow his own brains out as he's clearly a Domestic Enemy.

The Terrestrial Biosphere is a dynamic environment within a dynamic universe.  The Terrestrial Biosphere has changed and will always change.  The Terrestrial Biosphere will eventually become uninhabitable, even to single celled organisms, all due to a natural process.  Human actions should have an impact on the Terrestrial Biosphere.  Antropogenic Global Warming has unfortunately become a political football and an excuse to gain political power.  But, as we were taught at Fort Benning, excuses are never valid.  Real science is NEVER settled.

Social Justice isn't just.

One of the things I've noticed about Conservatives is that we honor people for what they've written or said regardless of their political ideology.  We honor or quote both George Orwell and Christoper Hitchens even though both men identified themselves as Leftists.

One of the problems with Evolution is that the process is too slow, the other one is that it's bad for the children.

That a non-volitional characteristic (such as race) should be politically irrelevant is such a radical idea that only a Republican (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.) could have come up with it.

If someone (Valerie Haney) has to flee the headquarters compound in the trunk of a car then something's seriously wrong with Scientology.

Comment

Those who value Political Power will do anything to obtain it.  They will steal presidential elections like Joe Biden did.  Those who value Political Power will silence their critics.  The Parler site was silenced for doing this.  Those who value Political Power will believe they're good people doing good things with their critics, victims, and opponents being evil.  No act is too foul for those who value Political Power.

On The JFK Assassination

Let's examine the JFK assassination.

The M38 Carcano rifle was the worst weapon available.  Italy was the poorest nation in Europe.  The Carcano rifle used a rounded round, even the Russians used a spitzer round.  When NATO converted to the 7.62 x 51 cartridge Italy sent the Garand rifles that were given to them by the American government to a local firm to be converted to BM-59 rifles.  No one who knew Oswald's background would have hired him for a normal job, let alone for an assassination.  The assassin would have been permanently disposed of.  A realistic conclusion would be that Oswald was a very fortunate shooter.

Deaths

On January 27, 1986 the space shuttle Challenger was accidentally destroyed during launch with all seven persons aboard.

Also on this day the Church of Scientology made their official announcement that L. Ron Hubbard had died.  In doing so they put forth a nonsense story that their founder had dropped his body and no mention was made of the fact that he'd suffered a stroke a week before.*  The true believers were then shocked to discover that no one outside the cult gave a damn about that useless malingering REMF** piece of excrement.  (Yes, I know I'm insulting excrement.)  They're particularly upset everyone was more concerned about the deaths of seven Wogs*** than with the passing of the most important being on the planet.****

L. Ron Hubbard will eventually be remembered as the vile man he actually was.


* I personally favor the pillow over the face as the actual cause of death.
** Rear Echelon Mother F***er.
*** Wog is the Scientologist term for a nonmember and the functional equivalent of the N-word.
**** Adolf Hitler used to think of himself that way too. 

Today is also Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Thoughts Of The Day

 How can you tell if a Scientologist is lying?  The lips are moving.

We in the United States are stuck with two political parties.  The leadership of one party is insane and the leadership of the other party simply doesn't care.  Rank and file members now call establishment members a bunch of Vichy Republicans.  Perhaps its time to start a new political party.  Is a new political party possible?  The answer is, I don’t know.  The opponents of chattel slavery proceeded, even with public opposition.  We, 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.  Will the Freedom Party replace the Democratic Party?  I don't think so.  What's more likely is that the Freedom Party will replace the Republican Party just like the Republicans replaced the Whigs.

Those who enter restaurants to harass people are behaving as Brownshirts.  We should treat them as such.  Some people call themselves Progressives but in fact they're Reactionaries, their last new idea was beating up people and taking their stuff in the stone age.  They've made progress on making excuses for their own behavior.  But the first thing taught to everyone during infantry basic training at Fort Benning was "the maximum effective range of an excuse is zero."

A former friend of mine stole a VHS copy of Triumph Of The Will from a local National Socialist (he also slept with his girlfriend) and it literally put me to sleep.

It's simply not possible to reason with someone who believes that you have no right to live.

Why does Bullwinkle the Moose keep trying to pull a rabbit out of the hat?  In spite of clear evidence that it's toxic some people continue to believe in enforced economic equality which was the doctrine that served as the foundation of the Soviet state.  And because the Soviet state enforced a falsehood it had to act in an adversarial fashion with respect to Humanity in General.  Like the Church of Scientology the Soviet State must lie to everyone without exception.  The continued fail of a cartoon character to perform a magic trick is funny.  The suffering that will be inflicted by the insane Joe Biden and Kamala Harris with their followers is nothing short of appalling and most importantly it'll be absolutely preventable.

Quote

If there's one myth that I'd really like to bury, it's the myth that National Socialism is a right wing ideology.

Quote:

"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." --Adolf Hitler

(Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)

Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or an ordinary Leftist could repeat the above statement word for word and no one in the usual audience or the Mainstream Media would call them out on it.

Veterans

There are less than one hundred veterans of the Second World War.  Unfortunately one of those veterans is George Soros.  He now postures as a Jew but during the Second World War he was a member of the SS.

 

Thoughts Of The Day

A number of people regardless of their political orientation, including myself, have warned of a coming civil war.  Leftists have done what they've always done, they ignored the warning.  What will Leftists do when their victims (with their fists raised in the air) march down the street shouting, "Hell no, we don't owe?"

Leftists believe they're the good guys with their victims and opponents being evil.  Leftists believe they're the oppressed the when in fact they're the oppressors.  Leftists don't believe the truth, that the presidential election of 2020 was clearly stolen and that a civil war will be the result.

Reality can't rewritten by the wish of anyone, no matter what their intentions or ideology.  Instead of objectively observing the real world and thus learning how to master it.  Leftists willfully ignore the facts of reality and stumble about in a surreal fog from error to error and to ultimately stumble about from disaster to disaster.  Leftists openly state their desire to rule over the whole of Humanity and then proceed to conclusively demonstrate that they're totally unfit to do so.

Your feelings don't matter.  You're not entitled to a damned thing.  Reality is always there.

I was invited to join the Michigan Militia when they were forming up, but I didn't want to quit my job and move to Michigan.

Antisemitism in politics is the practical equivalent of a dead canary in a coal mine, I can't say this often enough.  We have to see that Antisemitism is a symptom of a deeper philosophical problem.  We should treat Antisemites as the Enemies of Humanity they actually are.

If I've a complaint about The Right it's that we've shown infinite  and godlike patience with the behavior of Leftists.  Leftists can assault in public those who won't submit to them,destroy property, call for the mutilation of opponents, and the murder of elected officials who're carrying out their constitutionally mandated duties, we'll not lift one finger to hurt a single hair on the otherwise useless head of a Leftist.  I once told an editor that I worked for that we needn't rhetorically dehumanize our opponents, all we have to do is accurately describe their ideology and behavior because they've by their own choice dehumanized themselves.

Projection is when the self appointed deity, sitting on a throne of human skulls, points a finger of a blood stained hand at those who seek to stop his rampage and screams "murderers!"

Before labor there must be thought.  Anyone who doesn't know what they are doing is wasting their time.

 

If one were dealing with an honest pacifist then their fundamental error is that he or she treats the state of peace as an absolute value without regard to conditions or consequences. Values are in fact conditional.  Peace is only an affirmative value to those who live in the condition of liberty, that is being rightfully in charge of one's self and able to set the goals for one's own life.  Peace can't be a value to the subjects of a totalitarian socialist state.  To the victim of such a state, the ordinary worker who is bullied by a commissar, the inmate of a slave labor camp, or the occupant of a darkened cell awaiting murder at the hands of the local chekists, war, either an internal uprising against the socialist masters, or an invasion by an army of liberation, is in fact the positive value.  But if there is anything that I have noticed over the years, it's that most self-proclaimed pacifists are in fact also advocates of totalitarian socialism who have worked within our political system to prevent the overthrow of their Marxist brethren in other nations.  Isn't it about time that the self-styled peace movement be exposed and dealt with as such? 

They call themselves Democrats but in fact they're totalitarians, let's treat them as such, in the Nuremberg style.

 

On Atheism

As an atheist I accept the fact that I'm responsible for my own actions.  As an atheist I accept the fact that I won't be forgiven for my on actions by a divine authority.  So what’s the difference between a big-A atheist and a small-A atheist?  For a big-A atheist the lack of a God is the most important thing in their lives, as it was for the late Madalyn Murray O'Hair.  For a small-A atheist the lack of a God is simply the a consequence of someone’s philosophy and taking responsibility for one’s own life, as it was for the late Ayn Rand.  Also a small-A atheist notices the labor camps and mass graves generated by the practitioners of Socialism.  To a big-A atheist slavery and mass murder doesn’t matter.  To a small-A atheist slavery and mass murder do matter.  There’s more to Atheism than a lack of belief in God, live with it.  Adoption of Marxism is generally the result of rejecting Reason.  Adopting Objectivism as a philosophy is often the result of embracing Reason.

On Symbolism

Objectively, some vile people do awful things.  Subjectively, the same people see themselves as good persons doing good things.  We saw this before with the NSDAP and we're seeing this again with Anti-fa.

The same people often virtue signal.

Before it was adopted as a symbol of a certain notorious political party the swastika was once a good luck charm.  The twin stripes on the collars of Heer (German army) uniforms was once only used on the uniforms of elite guards regiments of the Imperial German and Prussian armies.  The skull and crossbones  symbol used on caps of the SS was once used by the cavalry of the Imperial German and Prussian armies.  What we now call the Hitler salute was once the ancient Roman Imperial salute.  The Pledge Of Allegiance was performed with the ancient Roman Imperial salute (there are photographs).  But became to be performed with the hand over the heart.

Up to the Great Depression the bundled rods was a symbol of state.  We see this phenomena as decorations all over the city of Washington.  Even the downtown Minneapolis Post Office used the symbol as a decoration.  The bundled rods with the axe was the symbol of the Roman state.  It was then used as the symbol of the Fascisti  and the Vichy Republic. 

Editorial

The presidential election of 2020 was openly stolen.  Establishment (i.e. Country Club) Republicans were sent to Washington to do a job and they haven't done it.  Decent people want cheaters removed from play.  The leadership of the Democratic Party aren't decent people.  We're being ruled by people who wouldn't pass a Turing Test if they cheated on it.  

When I enlisted in the United States Army on March 10, 1982, I promised to oppose "domestic enemies."  When we took the oath of enlistment all of us made a promise to the nation to uphold and defend The Constitution.  Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are clearly domestic enemies.  Biden and Harris believe they have won the election, but what they have actually done is make a civil war in the United States inevitable.  As part of my patriotism I joined the Special Forces Underground and contributed to their publication The Resister.  I recruited another Twin Cities Objectivist into the SFU and contribute to their publication.  Socialism, which the majority of the Democratic Party believes in, is essentially slavery.  Do masters need productive people?  Yes.  Do productive people need masters?  No.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are clearly Enemies of Mankind.  They need to be dealt with as such.  Orders issued by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are clearly invalid.  The United States of America is heading into another civil war.  The Second American Civil War wont be like the genteel affair conducted by President Lincoln, it'll be a knock drag out fight that makes the Spanish Civil War look like a schoolyard brawl in comparison.  Honest people want cheaters removed, The Democratic Party routinely steals elections.  The Democratic Party need to be identified and dealt with as the criminal gang it actually is.  Big name Democrats need to be identified and dealt with as the Enemies of Mankind they actually are.  For those persons who value political power no act is too vile.  Once differences in opinion are criminalized, the path to civil war is open.

There are executioners waiting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

 

On Gun Control

A firearm is simply a tool.  Some advocates of Gun Control don't understand this fact.  Some advocates of Gun Control identify firearms as magic objects.  The advocates of Gun Control appear to be influenced by the Marxist version of the concept of sympathetic magic, that the instrument causes the action instead the person who decides to use it.  Some persons even object to an image of a firearm.  The fact is that the personal weapon is the fundamental instrument of political authority, to disarm the citizen is to render that person politically irrelevant.  Thus in a free nation the attempt to disarm the citizens is in practical effect an act of treason.  But a legal ban on an object won't prevent its use.  If we look back on a horrible event (The Holocaust, The Killing Fields, 9/11, etc) we find that the use of tools didn't bring the event about.  The event was caused by the beliefs of the perpetrators.  A legal ban on firearms may bring about a Second American Revolution.  The advocates of Gun Control may actually treated as the Enemies of Mankind they actually are.  The advocacy of Gun Control is the advocacy of Murder.  A state that legalizes Murder in this respect ceases to be a government and devolves to a gang of criminals.  As such the state must be put down by deadly force.  The proponents of Gun Control believe they're good people, but in fact they're evil people.

On Government

Strange women lying in sacred ponds distributing swords is a better form of government than what we have today.

On Democracy

What I have to say about Democracy isn't nice.  The United States was actually founded as a Constitutional Republic, which is an actual form of government with clear restrictions on the exercised powers and political participants.  Well let’s step back and take a look at the concept of Democracy.  Democratic Government is a contradiction in terms.  On the most basic level Democracy is a political system without a clear limit on the exercised powers of the state or who may participate in it.  As to political participation in a Democracy, any warm body without regard to actual knowledge or even sanity may do so.  In some places like the city of Chicago even the requirement to actually exist is completely waved.  And it was really bad to be Socrates in the democratic state of Athens.  Socrates was condemned by democratic vote for not believing in the municipal deities and disparaging democracy, I would’ve been condemned for the very same things.  You're in your seventies and your family is being lethally threatened by the municipal authorities would you drink the hemlock too?  The basic problem with Democracy is that there’s no inherent limitation of the state.  As I’ve said this leads to problems such as the murder of Socrates by a majority vote.  Adolf Hitler was democratically elected so Democracy isn’t automatically a good thing.  If Adolf Hitler could get elected then perhaps the democratic process isn't a good thing.

Thoughts For The Day

All horrors have one thing in common, the perpetrators believed they were good people doing good things.  A foul idea is often presented as a virtuous idea. 

Who needs Goebbels and his Reichsministy when the Mainstream Media voluntarily lies?  NBC News has less credibility than Geraldo Rivera had in the 80's and 90's.

Antisemitism in politics is the practical equivalent of a dead canary in a coal mine, I can't say this often enough.  Antisemitism is bad enough, but it's also a symptom of a deeper political problem.  

The Left needs productive people, productive people don't need The Left. 

What we call the Peace Movement doesn't understand reality.  Peace, Freedom, and Security, are three words rational people use for the same phenomena, the absence of someone imposing their will on them.  Rational people have no use for those who proclaim themselves to be pacifists.

Aniversary

In 1865 President Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. The relationship between the Thespian Community and the Republican Party remains sour to this day.   If I recall correctly, John Wilkes Booth was a Democrat.

Thoughts Of The Day

Sometimes it really helps when the enemy is being stupid.  Have you ever noticed that most so-called intellectuals can't tell the difference between the institution of government and a band of brigands?  We have to remember that The Left regards existing societies as an evil to demolished in order to make way for their perfect fantasy collective.  Anyone, or any group, that acts in defense of the existing society is evil in the eyes of The Left.  Which is of course why The Left passionately hates the Police and the Armed Forces, both of whom have traditionally stood in the path of Holy Marxist Revolution and thus the establishment of the Holy Communist Society where all activities and relationships are dictated by the self appointed revolutionary saviors and enforced by the compulsory power of the state.

Totalitarians as a general rule are material and/or spiritual parasites.  Because of this they need to feel that they are in control of the hosts that they feed from.  For Totalitarians, control is life.  Without the apparent certainty that they are control of the productive population The Left's fear of their own perishing kicks in.
They have an idea, it's to replace the society of social and economic consent that we live in with the social and economic primacy of the parasites over the productive.  Or as their primary philosophical source (and founding trustifarian) put it, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs."  And as there's no limit to the needs of the parasite masters there'll be no limit on the burdens imposed on the productive slaves.  Poison is poison no matter how much grape flavoring one adds to it.  They can't avoid knowing that their ideal society is toxic to us and thus have no effective choice but to attack the opposition on trivial issues in order to head off a public examination of their basic ideological premises.  Political ideology's basically a means of giving the appearance of positive virtue to actions that're morally intolerable to the victims. 

Issac Asimov was right!  Violence was the first thing Anti-fa resorted to.  Those who describe themselves as opponents of Fascism are actually performing the doctrine.  The leadership and many of Anti-fa are practicing the very things they claim to oppose.

Blast From The Past

This one is directed to the Republican Party:

It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice. Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.

Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess? Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd this sacred place, and turn'd the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?

Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd, are yourselves become the greatest grievance. Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do. I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place; go, get you out!

Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the name of God, go!

-- Oliver Cromwell, Speech to the Rump Parliament, April 20, 1653

Hat tip to Dr. John Ray.

On Fascism

In reality both the Fascisti (with their ideological kin the National Socialists) and the self styled Progressives of all eras share the same fundamental central idea, a belief in the Primacy of the Parasite.  A belief that treats the ordinary person as a tool to be used, with the product of their labor treated as the property of the collective which in turn is distributed in accordance to those needs which are identified by the leaders of the collective.  And as a rule the needs of the leadership, which is in reality a wish list, take precedence over the actual needs of the productive class.  Because willful parasitism is distinctly different as a mode of existence from that of being a rational and productive person, this leads to distinct differences in how parasites answer moral and political questions.

Where rational people prefer to deal with each other through explicit consent the parasite must take what it needs through coercion, either by fraud or by open force.  Because the parasite must control the productive population it must claim a superior status over their victims  and must possess complete control over them.  This means that the parasites conception of law and justice is essentially the opposite of that of rational people.  Justice to a parasite is simply getting away with the parasitic mode of existence.  Crime is simply any resistance, regardless of intent or degree, to the actions of the parasite.  Laws are simply an excuse to carry out punitive violence against the producers.  The parasites in their delusion of superior status are tempted to feel that the ordinary productive person is nothing more than an animal.  And because they usually succumb to this temptation they usually seek to control the external stimuli that ordinary humans experience and thus control the behavior of those they have deemed to be livestock.  Thus the establishment of the Reichsministry fur Kultur by the German state under the NSDAP.

Of course the control of external stimuli doesn't work with rational people.  When the attempt to control by fraud doesn't work the parasites have no alternative but to use open force.  To the parasites the active consciousness of the rational person isn't a normal state but is instead a sign that there's something wrong.  Those who don't obey the self appointed shepherds are looked upon as diseased animals.  Something that must be destroyed before they infect the entire herd.  The systematic murder of whole populations is looked upon not as a mass crime but as a moral necessity in the parasite's view.

On Collectivism

It's happening again.  Many people loudly proclaim "never again," but they're the people who're going to do it again.  The Holocaust was the result of believing in Racial Collectivism.  The Gulags and The Killing Fields were the result of believing in Class Collectivism, or Marxism as we politely put it.  All forms of Collectivism must be seen as the vile doctrines they actually are.  The next great horror will be committed by people who believe they're good people doing good things.  Those people aren't in the habit of mentally stepping back and examining their own beliefs along with the actions derived from those beliefs. 

 

People who are walking away from the Democratic Party are being censored, this is clearly wrong.  Censorship is the negation of the human mind. 

What Is Christianity?

You may not like the answer.  What is Christianity?

Some people now believe Jesus Christ didn't exist.  Other people now believe that Christianity was created by the Flavian Dynasty of the Roman Empire as a political control mechanism.

Starting at the very beginning in the Torah (what we commonly call the Old Testament) from an objective perspective the Israelites aren't nice people, Conquest and Genocide aren't nice acts.  If someone behaved like Moses was depicted in the Torah in the United States (in spite of what we've been taught we still have standards), he would've been declared insane, given a life sentence, or given the needle.  What I have to say about Yahweh (a.k.a God) would require obscene language.

The Galactic Core is 30,000 light years away from us.  It takes 30,000 years for light from the Galactic Core to reach Earth.  That's five times the age of the Universe according to the Book of Genesis.

There are true believers in Christianity.  There are cultural Christians, people who perform the rituals that they were taught.  They still attend church with their families for holidays and weddings.  Many people fall into this camp.  And there are people like myself who simply don't believe.  Unfortunately, some nonbelievers (outside of the Objectivist camp) fall on the wrong side of the political line.

We in the United States are fortunate to live in a country where religion is no longer backed by the force of the State.

On Con Games

We must understand that Scientology isn't a religion.  We must understand that Scientology is a con game invented by L. Ron Hubbard.  We must understand that outside of the Collectivist movement L. Ron Hubbard was one of most vile men who ever lived.  Bad people often believe they're good people.  We saw this with the harassment of Paulette Cooper.  If the United States had a real government Scientology would be treated as the criminal organization it actually is.

Differences

In Russia high school students are required to read The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn with assembling and disassembling a standard infantry weapon.  American high school students can't even do that.  American high school students are ignorant of Totalitarianism and tought to fear weapons.  Many American High School students have become advocates of Totalitarianism.  This is clearly wrong.  

Another Rant

The Democratic Party (and their partisans) has all of the credibility and respect for the citizens shown by the National Socialist German Workers Party and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.  Which is to say NONE AT ALL.  In my mind the title of Democrat has become synonymous with the term Murderer.  The Democratic Party in the United States has in effect become a totalitarian party, and like the National Socialists and Soviet Communists they must be identified and dealt with as such.  To Democrats the fundamental value is power.  Freedom is the negation of power and therefore must be opposed.  Or at least in public Freedom must not be supported lest the victims come to understand their actual position within the socialist order.  A liar will eventually be caught lying, unfortunately for us it wasn't soon enough.

Thoughts For The Day

Antisemitism in politics is the practical equivalent of a dead canary in a coal mine, I can't say this often enough.  Antisemitism is bad enough, but it's also a symptom of a deeper political problem.   

Civilization in both the moral and economic aspects is based on the principle of consent.  But since productive people can't tolerate any form of sustained parasitism, those who seek to exist as parasites must destroy the society of consent and replace it with a political order where the parasites would enjoy a superior status over the productive.  We have to remember that The Left regards existing societies as an evil to demolished in order to make way for their perfect fantasy collective.  Anyone, or any group, that acts in defense of the existing society is evil in the eyes of The Left.  They have an idea, it's to replace the society of social and economic consent that we live in with the social and economic primacy of the parasites over the productive.  Or as their primary philosophical source (and founding trustifarian) put it, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their needs."  And as there's no limit to the needs of the parasite masters there'll be no limit on the burdens imposed on the productive slaves.  Poison is poison no matter how much grape flavoring one adds to it.  They can't avoid knowing that their ideal society is toxic to us and thus have no effective choice but to attack the opposition on trivial issues in order to head off a public examination of their basic ideological premises.  Political ideology is basically a means of giving the appearance of positive virtue to actions that're morally intolerable to the victims.

Sometimes it really helps when the opponent is being stupid.

On Statism

The state, like fire, must be limited.  An unlimited state, like fire, can be destructive.  Some people don't understand this fact.  A state without a functioning mechanism of accountability and a means of peacefully removing those who're unfit to govern will eventually fall into a state of tyranny.  Reality isn't subject to a majority vote.  Some statists have to learn this the hard way.  The only way a statist will release a lever of power is if someone pries their cold and dead fingers from it.

Thoughts Of The Day

When I drove a taxi and for pizza delivery I never used GPS.  My political orientation is Minarchist Libertarian.  I was once a member of the Libertarian Party of Minnesota.

Negative actions will have negative consequences.  The negative actions of the Democrats will have the requisite negative consequences.  If we look at the Democratic Party and their relationship to the problems we face at the social or political level one thing becomes very obvious.  They're either the primary cause of the problem, the primary aggravating factor of the problem, or the primary obstacle to a rational solution to a problem. 

Humanity isn't merely a physical condition, it's a state of mind.  To be human is to be essentially rational and productive.  The human mentality looks upon the world, the land, the animals and plants, the natural forces, as things to be mastered for the benefit of himself and his posterity.  On the other hand, the predator, or savage mentality doesn't seek to to master the world but to be the master of men.  The savage prefers not to sustain themselves by their own effort but to seize and consume the lives and property of others for material and spiritual sustenance. To the predator, justice consists of getting away with it, those who rightfully resist the predator are to be punished or destroyed.

Without the sword they'll take away your pen.  Without guns they'll take away your butter.  This isn't an either/or choice.  Those who state I don't have a right to speak or publish are mortal enemies. 

Antisemitism in politics is the practical equivalent of a dead canary in a coal mine, I can't say this often enough.  Antisemitism is bad enough, but it's also a symptom of a deeper political problem. 

I know Charlie doesn't surf, it's the other stuff Charlie does that's annoying.  Horrors (such as wars) happen because of the beliefs of the perpetrators, not their instruments.

Karl Marx didn't invent socialism or atheism.  Atheists must separate themselves from Marxism. 

It appears that I'm now being censored on Tony Ortega's blog, The Underground Bunker.

Black tribal collectivists choose to treat chattel slavery as the act of the "White Race" inflicted upon the "Black Race."  Treating this as a blank check to gain plunder and favors at the expense of non-blacks. Ignoring of course the fact that price for the sin of chattel slavery has already been paid, IN BLOOD.

It's Happening Again

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.  The National Socialists and Soviets believed themselves to be good, we're seeing the same phenomena with Anti-Fa.  Anti-Fa claims to be opposed to Fascism no matter what they actually do.  Members of Anti-Fa will believe the lies they're told regardless of the consequences.  They claim to oppose Fascism, in fact they're what Fascists are.

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

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

 

 

On Islam

We routinely make fun of "Islamic Rage Boy" (and we should), but he indentifies himself as a good person.  We're horrified by Islamic atrocities, but the perpetrators of those atrocities identify themselves as good people doing good things.

 

Thoughts Of The Day

Conscience and Liberal are two words that don't go together. 

Before one can say, "this is wrong, I won't do it", one has to say "I".  Conscience is the expression of the ego in the moral realm.  To make a moral judgment and to act on it are basically selfish acts.  It's the self that sees through its own eyes and acts on its own knowledge of right and wrong.  You couldn't be selfish if you can't live with yourself.  Rational Selfishness as defined and advocated by Ayn Rand was limited to acts which benefited one's self but caused no harm or inflicted a cost on another person.  The narcissist, especially in the political realm, isn't concerned with the injuries and burdens inflicted on other people.  In fact, the more destructive the consequences of obedience to those who obey the narcissist, the better.  Human sacrifice with beating hearts cut out and victims flayed alive, that's great. Millions worked to death in slave labor camps in Siberia, as far as the narcissist is concerned that's better.  In order for me to say, "I, Leslie Bates, do solemnly swear to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America..." I have to say "I".  That was my ego speaking when I took the oath of enlistment.

When anyone calls me, a Caucasian American gun owner, a murderer I take it seriously.  When someone denies my very humanity I take it very seriously.  Dehumanization of a specific population is historically a necessary step preceding the act of mass murder.  Am I paranoid?  Perhaps I am.  But I would rather be a live paranoid than a dead victim.

 

Our Rulers

Under the Primacy of the State the function of law is to control the productive population for the benefit of the ruling parasites.  The rulers and their immediate servants aren't subject to those laws themselves.  The actual interest of the actual citizens is irrelevant.  What matters is the whims of the rulers and those who willfully serve them.  Under the Rule of Law all real laws must be applied to all citizens equally such as the laws prohibiting homicide and theft.  As our Socialist rulers and their willing servants regard themselves as exempt from compliance with the laws, on what grounds can they claim to be protected under them?

A Fact Of Reality

There's no question that Al Franken stole the U.S. Senate seat.

 http://mopu.blogspot.com/2009/01/from-unpublished-memoirs-of-allen.html

Special Day

Happy New Years Day.

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