Conservative Values

Rebels With a Cause

Mark Noonan35 Comments

It is kinda funny how political labels get made but, anyways, the Liberal Democrat Party in Japan won a landslide victory in yesterday’s snap election – picking up 316 out of 465 seats in the Diet, where Japan’s political power resides. This is a supermajority which will allow Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to remake Japan as she sees fit. Back to that label – the Liberal Democrats are the Conservative-Populist/Nationalist Japanese party. Among the Party goals are a restriction on immigration and a build up of Japan’s military – that is, not allowing Japan to be turned into something Not Japan via immigration, and building up a force which make China think twice about disturbing the balance of power in east Asia.

I don’t know if this will mean Japan builds nuclear weapons – probably won’t. But I think Japan should. I’m sure they’ve got the technical know-how to build a credible nuclear deterrent within 10 years of the word “go”. But it is a sensitive issue in Japan, for obvious reasons. On the other hand, if Japan wishes to remain a fully independent nation, she’ll have to look after her own defense. I support our continued alliance with Japan and I can’t imagine a set of circumstances where we would refuse Japan aid in case of war…but no nation should place its chips on someone else riding to the rescue. The Europeans did this and look where it landed them.

What I am confident it will mean is the low-key rebuilding of Japan’s fleet air arm will be turbocharged…as well Japan’s development of first rank attack subs (and Japan is also helping Taiwan build first-rate submarines). Basically, Japan is going to back to being a Great Power. And in my view, we should mostly leave east Asia in Japan’s hands. There is strategic risk in this because maybe a future Japanese government decides it is time for Round II. This is a low-risk possibility and so worth it for us. An alliance of Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam and Australia ultimately backed by us is vastly strong enough to curb Chinese ambitions. But I would like to ultimately see the US 8th Army out of Korea as well as withdrawing American ships from permanent basing in Japan. Our main Pacific base remains Hawaii and our forward base is Saipan (I have come to loath having bases on foreign soil – just too much diplomatic friction…I’d only agree to it if the base is ceded to the US either permanently or on a century-long lease). Long term, this starts to restore a normal world where powers and regional groupings look after themselves rather than to a globalist UN paid for by tax dollars extracted from Americans. Maybe one day we will have a one world government…but it can only happen in a sane way if the peoples of the world chose it. Not have it chosen for them by elites who then lie to the people to get it done.

Meanwhile, over in Aragon, Spain, the socialist government coalition got whacked in the regional elections. Supposedly Aragon is the bellweather for Spain…as it goes, so will the nation in the next national election. Don’t know enough about Spanish politics to judge that…but here’s the thing about both Spain and Japan: it was the youth vote in both places which propelled the Right to victory. The youth of the civilized world have had enough of it…enough of their future being stolen by an aging, dying Ruling Class. And think about this: the kids have been subjected to relentless Ruling Class propaganda since they were born. In schools, in media, in pop culture…everything has told them that their own countries are bad, their own people second rate, that they have to stop being what they are if they want to be good people…and this is now being rejected. Probably on instinct. It is also what happened here in 2024 and is happening in country after country…the youth is rebelling.

The Ruling Class will not go without a fight. In Spain, for instance, faced with its increasing unpopularity, the socialist government is going to legalize 500,000 foreigners living in Spain and allow them to vote in the next election. France is set to do this as well – and the reason why there’s a Labour government in the UK is because they did this years ago. The Ruling Class is electing a new people as the old people reject the Ruling Class. I don’t have much hope for Europe because of this – the demographics have been changed too much for there to be a non-violent way back and as all European peoples have been disarmed, there’s no way to fight the Ruling Class. But the rebellion is still there – and in nations where the demographics have not been fatally altered, the rebellion is winning.

It is ok to be what you are. I would never dream of going to a foreign land and telling them to be something they’re not. And this goes even for rather despicable peoples with really lousy cultures. Hey, I used to think differently – I used to believe that most people wanted to live in peace and freedom under law with everyone minding their own business. Found out in the War on Terrorism that some peoples appear to enjoy being rat bastards and will put up with poverty, disease and oppression as long as there’s someone lower than themselves to s*** on. Hey, more power to ya. Live as you want to live. And I, an American, will live as I want to live. Just as I expect a Japanese to live as a Japanese wants to live. And Argentine like Argentine. So on and so forth. I do believe my American civilization is the best – at least, it is the best for me. I want to keep it. Because of the peculiarity of American development, I don’t completely oppose immigration…but I refuse utterly the immigrant who doesn’t want to be American. I don’t want to see people wandering around my streets dressed in bizarre, foreign garb and speaking foreign languages with all the local signage unreadable…melting pot, not balkanization. Become American. Ditch all that Old Country nonsense that doesn’t fit in…and if you’ve got something on the Old Country’s menu that tastes good, lets have at it. In English. Wearing common American clothes. With it cooked up to food safety codes and served with forks and knives. Yeah, and we don’t just dump our trash on the streets or in the local river…we’re not like that here in America.

I do think our youth rebellion will work. That they will sort this out – and with just a touch of guidance from use geezers, they’ll be able to restore America over the next couple decades. I guess there really is a limit to what people will put up with…and we’ve at last reached it.

Our Indecent Modern World

Mark Noonan25 Comments

Saw a story out of Pakistan and it is similar to many stories I’ve read over the past years – teenage Christian girl (13 in this case) is kidnapped by a Muslim man, sexually assaulted, forced to convert to Islam and then “marry” the man. In a rather sad, last echo of British rule there was a court case about it: going through the motions, as it were. The court ruled for the Muslim. These cases are usually decided by a few things:

  1. How intimidated the court is (the man brought something like 150 male friends to let the court know how it would go if it ruled incorrectly).
  2. Statements allegedly from the victim claiming she’s happy with it (this is coerced and the girl can’t actually testify in a Muslim court).
  3. Because this is what you can do if you’re a Muslim male when dealing with non-Muslims in a Muslim-majority country.

But don’t get too hung up on the Muslim aspect of it. What happened here is the common run of humanity. The strong take what they can, the weak endure what they must. This is what the world is like – except in places where Christianity is the majority worldview. This is what Christianity suppresses when it waxes strong.

You can look up the Amritsar Massacre and you’ll find that it is a very big thing in India. It happened in 1919 in the Punjab, then under British rule. The dislocations caused by World War One had lead to unrest all over India – riots, attacks on Europeans, destruction of property. In Amritsar, an elderly British schoolteacher was manhandled by a mob and the local military commander decided to teach the locals a lesson. With eyes clear, he ordered his troops to open fire on a large crowd of Indians – nobody to this day knows how many were killed. Lowest estimate is 200, highest is 1,000. Times two or three injured. Remember: the British commander wanted a large number of Indians to die. He felt is was the only way to control an increasingly unruly situation and bring peace to the Punjab. Of course, when word got out of what happened, the whole world was shocked and outraged – including the British Establishment…and including Winston Churchill who was an ardent opponent of anything like independence for India. Post-Independence, the massacre has become part of the integral story of India’s rise to independence – they’ve got a huge memorial to the slain and it is ingrained into Indian national consciousness. The justification, as it were, for throwing off the British yoke. And, of course, Dyer – the British commander – is roundly condemned as an insensate brute…a racist imperialist oppressor.

But, here’s the thing, Reginald Dyer was born in the Punjab. He was fluent in many Indian languages. He commanded Indian troops in battle – very successfully on multiple occasions. In short, the man knew India – and Indians. Perhaps not as well as a native, but as well as any outsider can know another people. It was with his deep knowledge of Indians that he gave the orders to fire – and the firing was done by Gurkha and Pathan troops under his command. It is when you actually look at this that you realize that maybe the kindergarten history we’ve been spoon fed about the end of the European Empires is leaving off some crucial details. He wasn’t some monster – he was a highly educated man who lived and worked with the people of India his whole life.

So, why did he open fire?

Because the sort of people he was governing included the very sort of people who here a century later kidnap Christian teenagers, assault them and force them to marry their captors. Whatever brutalities the British Raj visited upon India, it is nothing like the brutalities that Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis visit upon themselves. Dyer wasn’t trying to kill good people…he was trying to make sure that the sort who kidnap little girls – or manhandle elderly British women who devote their lives to educating poor Indians – didn’t get the upper hand. We can dispute whether the action was right or wrong – but we cannot, we dare not, just go for a cartoonish view of the event. There was a reason – and we must know the reason before we render judgement. And we here in 2026 have the luxury of hindsight. We’ve seen what happens when the barbarians are able to take control.

Good to keep in mind that while the British Establishment condemned Dyer, the British people handed him the modern equivalent of about 1.5 million dollars via voluntary subscription. Almost as if even way back then, there was a divide between People and Rulers…and it was the Rulers who were undercutting the People no matter what the People wanted.

Why bring all this up? Because there’s been a lot of talk about decency of late. Most recently sparked by Trump accidentally including in a video post a couple second clip showing the Obama’s looking like apes. From what we can tell, that last bit was entirely inadvertent. Trump – or Team Trump – was posting a video indicating the fraud in the 2020 election and whomever posted it simply slipped up and picked up a couple seconds of the next video in the stream. Poor editing! But we were immediately told by the Left that it was indecent and a host of so-called “Conservative” voices rose to condemn Trump.

Meanwhile, a 13 year old girl in Pakistan was just legally handed over to her abuser.

Armed bandits “kidnapped” 150 Catholic students in Nigeria – I put that in quotes because they weren’t kidnapped…it was a slave raid. Those poor kids are being sold.

An illegal immigrant truck driver killed 4 people in Indiana.

Up in Canada a woman was killed by the national health service against her will – sorry, lady; but two out of the three MAID ghouls agreed it was time for you to go!

Decency, huh?

Meanwhile, these Democrats who say Trump is indecent are in favor of federally funded abortion on demand to the moment of birth. They cheered with Trump was shot. Cheered when Kirk was killed. They are fighting tooth and nail to keep illegal alien criminals in the USA – and are inciting violence in our street to protect Democrat voting and financial fraud.

Spare me the whines about decency. Our world is very indecent right now – and the only way we can get back to decency is to get back to whacking the barbarians. And not fairly. The barbarians must feel more pain than they ever caused us. It is the only way barbarians learn. We have very much lost something – the will to live, as it were. We fuss so much about any perceived error on our part that we have no time to spare for the massive crimes against humanity our opponents commit on a daily basis…with the promise that if they ever get back on top, they’ll jail us for merely disagreeing. There is nothing quite so true as the old phrase that you sleep peacefully in your bed at night because rough men stand watch, ready to do violence on your behalf. Like the Hobbits in The Lord of the Rings, we are sheltered, but have ceased to remember it…we think we’re safe because being safe is the norm. It isn’t. And the areas of “safe” in the world are rapidly shrinking. If we don’t let the rough men get back to work – and soon – we’ll be overrun with savagery.

The Insidious Erosion of Civilization

Mark Noonan18 Comments

If you’re of a certain age, you remember this movie – and it is a good one. You can easily rate it as one of Newman’s best as well as one of the best of the 1960’s. George Kennedy’s Best Supporting Oscar was well earned while Strother Martin completely nailed the role of “the Captain”. But it is also rather horrible and was definitely a piece in the gigantic pysop which essentially talked us into giving up civilization.

What is the story? Well, Luke is a dishonorably discharged WWII veteran who in a drunken haze destroys public property (parking meters) and so gets sentenced to a chain gang. As the story goes on, we find that Luke really doesn’t like rules! He heroically resists the rules! Damn those rules! And, to be fair to Luke, he is treated unjustly – when his mother passes way, the Captain puts him in the box to discourage him from any escape attempt to attend his mother’s funeral. This is wrong. On the other hand, it isn’t exactly the worst thing that can happen to a man.

Step back a moment before that box event and remember that Luke’s mother had come to visit him shortly before her death – and in the scene we find that Luke has a brother who is married, with kids, working the family farm and taking care of his ill mother. We’re supposed to instantly dislike the brother when he hands Luke his guitar and says, “now there’s no reason for you to come home”. Cruelty! But…the brother is taking care of mom and the farm and is supporting a wife and kids and did take time out of his life to make sure his mother could say goodbye to her ne’er do well son in jail. So, maybe not cruelty? Maybe exasperation? A man who could have used some help running the farm and taking care of mom and has just had it with his brother’s pointless antics?

Can’t say – because it isn’t explored in the film, which is a paean to the anti-hero – the man or woman who simply refuses to fit in and live up to the expectations of others. We’re focused in the film on Luke and only get enough of the backstory to understand why he’s in jail…but not why he did a thing which would get him in jail, other than a general sense that he’s a rebel…and a long-time one, too. When mom visits, she talks up about his rebel ways and the one time he almost gave it up to get married to a decent women, but he wrecked that, too. The end of the movie has Luke being unjustly shot and allowed to bleed out but still showing his defiance to the end. Which, was the end of a pointless existence that was very costly to society which not only didn’t receive any benefit from Luke’s existence, but had to pay a lot of extra money simply because he had been alive.

The sum total of the movie is to make people feel that being like Luke is a good thing – that rules are just made up things that the strong impose on the weak. It is, of course, quite the other way around – the rules are to ensure the weak can withstand the strong. End the rules and you get…well, Mexico; where there are no rules in any real sense and the strong take what they want and kill with impunity. But if your goal is to erode Western Civilization – to end Christendom as it used to be called – nothing better than well-written, well-acted movies which subtly but insidiously talk people into thinking that rules are bad…as long as said rules are those of Western Civilization. Bottom line, Luke is the villain. His mother the weak-kneed enabler of the villain. His brother the heroic defender of family. The Captain is the man who has to keep a lid on the villain to prevent bad from becoming outright evil. And there really was a failure to communicate…all through the life of Luke, nobody could ever convince him that being a man requires the courage to subordinate oneself to others.

I’ve written before about how effective advertising is. Propaganda, as it were. The one thing that Hitler really did hit upon – and from Toland’s biography, he hit upon it while he was a down-and-outer in Vienna – was the fact that if you say something with conviction over and over again, people will come to believe it, no matter how absurd it is. The Big Lie works exceptionally well. This is not to say that all advertising is a lie, but that if you advertise a lie often and effectively enough, people will believe it. What movies like Cool Hand Luke were doing – and it just got worse as the decades went on – was telling a society that the sober, the hard working, the honorable were the bad guys…just a bunch of rotten, hypocritical rat bastards preventing freedom. There is a straight line from movies like this to people figuring they can attack cops for merely enforcing the law…the people who jump on cars, set things on fire, loot shoe stores are the descendants of Luke…free to run wild because the Captain is now a career civil servant who figures his pension is more important than decency. And the rest of us pretend it is normal – you see? It didn’t just affect the miscreant…it also affected us. Infected us. We’re not shooting the people who set up roadblocks and set things on fire because…we’re somehow convinced that it’s ok for savages to impose upon us. We don’t want to be seen as the Captain, right? He’s the bad guy! So is the brother! Luke is the hero! Grab those nike’s!

It is going to be a long road back to civilization – and it will take some very tough people making some very hard decisions. I don’t see a completely non-violent way out of this mess. The only debatable point is how much violence there will be…because if the Left wins, they’ll impose violence on us of the most horrific sort, and all we can do is decide how much violence we’ll apply to them to prevent this. We have to stop being so weak – so cowardly. Civilization is a necessary thing for anything above the existence of brutes – and sometimes civilization has to destroy the barbarians…even if they appear dressed nice and speaking sweet words.

Human Rights and the Operation of Law

Mark Noonan11 Comments

Hate to link to Tik Tok but its the best video I can find on it. I hesitate to post it because I’m afraid Amazona will decide to move to El Salvador just so she can have a President who is clear, concise and doesn’t play stupid games with the overall Left. Go ahead and watch it, though – because President Bukele makes a point which is blazingly obvious but has remained unmentioned for decades as the Left has destroyed the world:

Sure, we all have rights. Even the very worst of us do…but everyone has rights. Everyone. Do you understand? Every last person on Earth has human rights…included in these rights are the rights to not be beheaded, raped, beaten and robbed by criminal gangs. Bukele is just a man who looked at the situation and arrived at the only possible conclusion: rights are being violated all to heck and gone in El Salvador and I must do everything I can to ensure the maximization of secured rights…and this meant rounding up every person he could find who had a gang tattoo or other obvious marker for being a criminal.

Sure, he almost certainly swept up some who didn’t need to be taken in – on the other hand, you don’t get a gang tattoo by accident. You get it for the very specific purpose of letting everyone know you’re in the gang, with all that entails. The main thing is that it was the only way to get it done – to turn El Salvador from a happy hunting ground for murders into a peaceful, free place where families can go out at night with zero fear. And it was an operation of law – it was, indeed, law in its purest form.

We are an over-lawyered society and so we tend to equate law with lawyer. We watch our tense, courtroom dramas and think that is law. It isn’t. It is a means of achieving law. And for the most part, it works very well. But not always. In El Salvador, under the old regime, the first thing a gangster would do when arrested was squeal like a stuck pig about his “rights”. And then the lawyers would swoop in, funded by drug money, to tie things up in knots and if that didn’t do the trick, just bribe and/or intimidate the cops and judges. It was downright impossible to punish anyone who was in a gang – and they ran wild. And don’t just think it happens in El Salvador – our own judiciary is corrupted. I am confident that some of it is bribery and intimidation, but most of the corruption is political…that is, huge swaths of our justice system are in the hands of people who are in it to protect the Left and harm the Right, as well as to harm America and our civilization at every turn. You think a man arrested 20 times for violent crimes is let out by accident? No. The judge who released him to go stab a girl on a bus did so on purpose – with the full intent that the violent criminal would go and do something horrible…go out, in the Leftist judge’s mind, and punish AmeriKKKa for its racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.

The law isn’t there to make sure forms are filled out correctly – that your warrant is perfect. That your evidence is collected properly. It is there to ensure, as far as imperfect humans can, that justice is achieved. That, in the main, people are able to live their lives as they see fit, under no threat from others and able to retain the fruits of their labor. We have the forms and the warrants and the evidence collection procedures in place to ensure, as far as possible, that everything is on the level and everyone gets a fair shake. But while all that is going on, the primary purpose must be kept in mind: I should be able to walk down the poorest street in the city in middle of the night, tipsy after a few drinks with a hundred dollar bill sticking out of my pocket and make it safely to my destination 9,999 out of 10,000 times. We shouldn’t have to lock our doors. We shouldn’t have to get a concealed carry permit. We shouldn’t have to spend money on burglar alarms. A murder or armed robbery should be a shocking rarity which rates blazing headlines in the news. That is law. That is what law is for. And if they say we have law but murder, assault and robbery are common enough that you’re taking defensive measures against them, then you don’t have law. You have anarchy.

To be sure, “round ’em all up and sort ’em out later” must never become the norm. On the other hand, the intense levels of criminality we see in certain parts of the USA must never be the norm, either. Abnormal circumstances require abnormal actions. You do what you have to do to secure justice…to ensure that you live in a lawful society. And I do believe we’re getting to the point where we here in the USA will have to take a page out of Bukele’s book. Trump is doing a fantastic job – and in spite of critics, I think Bondi and Patel are doing well, too. This is our last chance to just use the regular tools…but we’re already seeing signs that it might not be enough. Mostly in things like that Luigi character having the death penalty taken off the table via suppression of evidence by a clearly Leftist judge. Also when we see juries in Left areas simply not convicting obviously guilty Leftists. On and on like that – but we can’t live in a society which has a host of lawyers, judges and cops but no law.

The securing of human rights is not a theory – it is the purpose of government. It is, as our sublime Declaration states, the reason why governments are instituted among people. If I can’t be safe and free and in possession of my property, then what purpose is the government? How is there law if I can lose my life and property on a whim? There isn’t. And if making sure I can hold my life and property means that those who would take both need to be treated harshly, then so be it – the criminal does not lose his rights, but by the abuse of his free will he compels us to restrain him…and in doing that, we can’t be too fussy about whether or not every form was filled out just right.

Arrests! We Got Arrests!

Mark Noonan14 Comments

We did get some arrests! More are promised…but Don Lemon’s arrest warrant wasn’t signed because the Judge’s wife is an Assistant AG in Keith Ellison’s office.

Think about that. It isn’t a statement of guilt. It isn’t about evidence. It is merely law enforcement saying they want to arrest a person on alleged charges. Book him, Dan-o. That’s it. He’d be out on bail probably within hours. But the Judge wouldn’t sign…because the Judge knows that the job isn’t about law, it is about protecting Friends and punishing Enemies. He was protecting a Friend.

This is what we’re up against – all up and down the line on every level of government, we have committed Leftist fanatics who’s only loyalty is to the Party. Trump is weeding them out of the federal level and in the Red States serious efforts are being made to get rid of them…but in the Blue areas – which includes the Blue areas of Red States – the fanatics are firmly in power and will hamstring all operations of law if those operations harm the Left. It is going to be hard to get indictments. Hard to get judges who won’t just toss the cases. Hard to get convictions in jury pools made up of Leftist fanatics.

The good news? In the end, we don’t have to get a lot of convictions all at once. In fact, to start, we only need one. Just one person looking at years in jail but holding information which will put dozens in jail. Information to trade for a get out of jail free card. There’s nothing quite like looking at 10 or 20 years in the pen to concentrate the mind…to make one reconsider if loyalty to the Party is all its cracked up to be. These people figure they are immune…that they mostly won’t even get arrested and, if arrested, will be allowed to skate. And even if convicted they figure a Democrat President in 2029 will pardon them. It will be hard to get any of them to flip…but if we can get just one, the whole thing unravels.

And they are all corrupt – every last one from the most minor official to the highest elective offices. They are all on the take. They all have skeletons they must keep hidden. Everyone is at risk if anyone starts to help find the bodies. Once one flips, it’ll be a stampede of mostly lower level miscreants desperate to get out of the way. We can start to unravel it all…backed by the testimony of those who made it all happen. You think some Somali just off the boat can work up a multi-billion dollar welfare scam? No. That takes local talent. A lot of it. The Somali is just the face – the way to call all attempts to stop it racism. If that bit of lead shielding no longer works and if people are facing serious jail time, it will all come out.

And nobody has ever tried this before. The GOP has routinely let slide massive corruption because they are a mix of on the take, themselves, or just too gutless to go after it. Afraid of being called bad names. But not any more. The charge of racism just doesn’t work on us – we know we’re not and, actually, the more they shout it the more angry and determined we become…because we know we’re not and for goodness sake, these people are robbing us blind. Trump is the first man in ages who feels that cheating is bad, as such and must be stopped. It probably was set deep in his soul by how he was cheated in 2020. Nothing like that sort of rip off to make you thoroughly sick of all con artists. Be that as it may, he seems determined to go get it…and if you look at what’s been done, it is clear the Left has been set up…essentially forced to defend the indefensible against a President who is willing to let it all come out because he and MAGA are not at all involved.

We’ll see how it goes – if it works, corruption is rooted out and the Democrats suffer another body blow (the corruption provides most of Democrat campaign funds – nobody really donates to them; they kick back to Democrats some of the swag stolen from the taxpayers).

Do We Have Any Guts?

Mark Noonan35 Comments

The word at this moment is that the DOJ is going to charge Don Lemon and the rest of the Commies who invaded a Minnesota church yesterday under the Klan Act. The teeth of it:

…That any person who, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State, shall subject, or cause to be subjected any person within the jurisdiction of the United States to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution of the United States…

…That in all cases where insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combinations, or conspiracies in any State shall so obstruct or hinder the execution of the laws thereof, and of the United States, as to deprive any portion or class of the people of such State of any of the rights, privileges, or immunities, or protection, named in the Constitution and secured by this act, and the constituted authorities of such State shall either be unable to protect, or shall, from any cause, fail in or refuse protection of the people in such rights, such facts shall be deemed a denial by such State of the equal protection of the laws to which they are entitled under the Constitution of the United States; and in all such cases…it shall be lawful for the President, and it shall be his duty to take such measures, by the employment of the militia or the land and naval forces of the United States, or of either, or by other means, as he may deem necessary for the suppressions of such insurrection, domestic violence, or combinations…

Nutshell: if you do anything – even under the color of law or custom – which denies the rights of an American, you are in violation of the Act and if the local and State government wherein you reside refuse for any reason to secure your rights, then the President may use any means which come to hand to secure your rights, local law notwithstanding. Lemon’s assertion is that he was merely exercising his First Amendment rights to report on the incident…but the videos he’s posted show he had advance knowledge of and participated in the invasion of the Church, thus being part of a combination designed to deny the right of the people to free exercise of religion. Given that the government of Minnesota has done nothing – and has, indeed, encouraged such actions – it is now fully within the power of the President to see to it that the free exercise rights of the people of Minnesota are secured.

But, as they say, there’s more! 18 US Code 247:

Whoever, in any of the circumstances referred to in subsection (b) of this section…intentionally obstructs, by force or threat of force, including by threat of force against religious real property, any person in the enjoyment of that person’s free exercise of religious beliefs, or attempts to do so; shall be punished as provided in subsection (d).

Lemon and co are lucky nobody was physically harmed…but just for walking in there, they each face a year in jail. But the main thing to keep in mind here is that there are a host of laws on the books protecting civil rights, they are race and gender neutral, they have teeth…and they simply haven’t been applied to the Left, ever.

If we have just a small bit of guts, we’ll be able to destroy the Left…and they walked right up and asked us to. Keep in mind: the Klan doesn’t even exist any longer. Nobody will incorporate a Klan organization under the laws of the United States or the several States because doing so just makes you liable in court…so it can be with Antifa and all these Commie terror groups organizing protests and riots around the country.

Obstruct law enforcement. Block a road. Harass a citizen over beliefs. Any and all of these are massive federal law violations. And everyone involved in the organization doing it is completely liable both as to criminal and civil penalties.

What We’re Up Against

Mark Noonan48 Comments

I saw a video of a man interviewing some of the anti-ICE protestors and he was asking them about the fraud in Minnesota and to a man, woman and other, they were convinced it wasn’t happening – made up to justify hating Somalis. In other words, racist MAGAts were just inventing a reason to go after black immigrants. This is 180 from reality but we do have to understand why they believe it: the MSM has told them this is the case. Sure, it is heavily reinforced by Leftwing social media, but they get their main cue from the MSM. Over and over again on CNN, MSNBC and the rest of the DNC propaganda outfits, the basic Narrative is repeated: it is just that evil, bad Orange Man and his racist supporters going after poor immigrants who didn’t do nothing. Then after the Leftist watches that, xe heads over to Bluesky where it is a stream of “people are being kidnapped!”, “ICE is going door to door with guns drawn” and “it was clearly a murder by ICE” over and over and over again. What you won’t get in either MSM or Leftist social media is the fact – very clear by now – that quite a lot of money was stolen…and while Somalis have been the face of it, the reality is that the entire political and social organism of Minnesota has been in on it…and it is likely going on in California, New York, Illinois and every other State and locality where the Left is dominant.

Here is our problem: they can’t be talked out of it. I’ve seen major Lefty accounts posting video clearly showing the woman tried to kill the ICE officer and the comment with the video is “here we see the ICE officer shooting the woman for no reason”. And then 10,000 Lefty accounts repost it and after a day or two it has a million views and you start getting smaller Lefty accounts saying “I saw the video where the ICE officer shot her for no reason”. Boom: this is now Leftist dogma as much as “hands up, don’t shoot” and “Russian collusion” are. Absent a road to Damascus moment, these people will go to their graves certain they saw ICE murder someone on video. And these people get to vote – they will go into the voting booths this November and pull the lever based upon their conviction that ICE murdered someone…and is daily kidnapping, murdering and torturing others. A Big Lie will have a gigantic influence on how America is governed.

This is not sustainable.

It is my view that the insanity the Left is displaying will be a massive turn off to all non-Left people by November – coupled with the rapidly improving economy, my expectation at this point is a GOP victory in the mid-terms. Of course, I could be wrong – but if I am wrong it means that a quite monstrous lie will propel the Democrats into control of at least one house of Congress, if not both. Think about that – a political result based entirely upon lies. And then the liars will get to enact laws and carry out other Congressional actions. How is a Republic supposed to survive with that? I mean, if the Democrats lie their way into a Congressional majority in 2026, then they’ll just put the lies on turbocharge for 2028…and if they can lie to victory one year, they can certainly do it again…and our whole system will be in the hands not just of liars, but of liars who believe that lying is the best possible thing to do…that not only should they lie, they should lie in the most astonishing and easily exposed ways and carry out the most absurd policies based upon the stupidest lies imaginable. That will be it, my friends: we’ll be cooked. We’ll have laws mandating illegal entry into the USA and immediate fraudulent benefits to everyone we bring in…just as one example.

I hope that Trump and team are fully cognizant of what we’re up against – there are rumors and rumblings that major anti-corruption efforts are underway, with Somali fraud in Minnesota just a very small tip of a gigantic iceberg. I hope this is true – because while we can’t convince these Leftist morons they’re wrong, we can start sending a lot of them to jail…or at least into the mental meat-grinder of a felony trial (though, of course, Leftist judges will try to toss the cases…and Leftists still working within Justice will try to sabotage the cases). We really do need to start seeing people like Walz in cuffs. We need to start detailing just how bad it is. The good news is that Trump and the GOP appear to have something like a billion dollars in hand to let the American people know what has been going on – and watch as the Left tries to pressure the networks into not running the ads (it won’t work – while the Lefties running the major networks will want to comply with censorship of MAGA, there is just too much regulatory and monetary risk in doing so).

Outside the GOP money, we continue to see gains in GOP registration – after a slight, regional blip for Democrats in the runup to the 2025 elections, we have now resumed the GOP’s increase…including flipping North Carolina Red for the first time since Reconstruction. Fetterman is out there sounding more MAGA by the day because if he does want a second term, he only gets it with MAGA votes. Essentially, the crazed Leftist type can no longer win in Pennsylvania State-wide. Do keep in mind that Trump’s opposition is very much astroturf…it is rent-a-mobs at the beck and call of the DNC. It is armies of bots on Social Media endlessly reposting Leftist talking points. In money and registration, it is all running strongly GOP. The woman who got herself killed by ICE was part of a network of Leftist groups paid by Leftist moneybags to stir up trouble…bottom line, she’s dead because the Left wanted her dead. Her and a lot more…they are convinced if they can gin up a Kent State (or a dozen) they’ll win – they believe a Narrative which said that Kent State led to Leftist victory in the past…forgetting that two years later the tin soldiers and Nixon won in a landslide and that the Guard was overwhelmingly favored against the protestors in public polling.

It all turns on Trump. The fate of our country is in his hands – if he can continue to show the courage and just go after these people (and he shows no sign of slacking), then we can crush them once and for all.

Civilization is Good

Mark Noonan27 Comments

Take a moment to study this picture:

The modern Left loathes it – they see it as genocidal conquest. But it wasn’t that at all – it was the spread of civilization. The night of Barbarism flees before the light of Progress. The pioneer, the sodbuster, the railroad and, at last, the city. A new world is born and it is better for everyone…even the Barbarians if they give up their old and savage ways.

I bring this up because in the wake of taking out Maduro, plenty are saying “oh, its just for oil”. It isn’t just for oil. But even if it was – even if we said the only thing we want to do is physically take ownership of Venezuela’s oil reserves – this is not a bad thing…because the reason we would do so is to efficiently extract cheap and abundant energy to be placed on the open market so that the whole world – and most especially the poor – can benefit from it. Our ownership of the oil is a boon to the world…the Venezuelan government’s ownership of it is a boon to the leaders of Venezuela and a select group of Russian, Chinese and Iranian oligarchs. It is said that Venezuela sits atop the world’s largest oil reserves – even more than Saudi Arabia. This is worth, I am told, something like thirteen trillion dollars…and as long as the Maduro regime was in place, the people of Venezuela were going to keep rooting in garbage cans for scraps while the Ruling Class lived in palaces. It was unjust for that regime to continue to hold that asset – just as it was unjust for a small number of savages to hold the asset which eventually became the United States of America.

It is way past time we ditched the whole anti-West charade…this stupid concept of the Noble Savage. This idea that putting a city where a howling wilderness once stood is a bad thing. It is all so very stupid – proved stupid by the fact that not one person who rants and raves about the settlement of the USA is willing to assume a 1492 lifestyle. It is this concept that underlays all the other stupid concepts – like the idea that because a Third World dictator shouts “death to America” he has a point…or some concern for the well being of his people. Maduro could have made his people very wealthy…he could have tapped into the vast wealth of Venezuela and made sure that the profits from oil and gas extraction were used to increase the overall wealth of Venezuela. It wasn’t hard. The damned oil is there, plenty of people with knowledge and expertise were ready and willing to get it out of the ground and on to the market…but if Maduro had made the people of Venezuela wealthy, then he wouldn’t have remained in charge. It is as simple as that – like Lenin, Stalin, Castro and so many others, he knew that the only thing keeping him in charge was an impoverished people held down by well paid goon squads. Any alteration of this dynamic and out they go. Maduro and his cronies are not Venezuelan patriots…they only care about themselves.

And I, for one, and just darned tired of playing a stupid game…It is only now, in the 21st century, that some governments are starting to arise in Latin America that are based upon a patriotic desire for the people to do well – Argentina and El Salvador leading the way here. You think about Argentina – independence since 1810, a large (1 million square miles) country with vast natural resources and an educated population of mostly European origin…basically the same ingredients the USA has but until Milei got into office in 2023, not one government of Argentina had ever really cared about Argentinians, as such. Just various factions fighting for control via violence and voter fraud…causing a nation which should be at least as rich as the USA to still be poor here in 2026. Good to keep in mind when thinking about Latin America is that independence didn’t come from a vast, popular uprising against Spanish rule but because a tiny, Liberal elite felt that with Napoleon’s occupation of Spain in 1808, they had a chance to take over. Such a start was not conducive to the development of the sort of patriotism which makes for a successful nation…it has slowly developed over time and is now strong enough that it is forcing Latin American governments to become real governments rather than collections of opportunists seeking their chance to loot the treasury.

And you’ll notice that the genuine patriots have no problem with us – even if they disagree with us. I expect that patriots from another country will argue vigorously with me…but I also expect mutual respect. And we’re getting it…because that is the way forward. To make the deal. Sign the treaty. Do what is best by our respective peoples while also giving reasonable concessions to our foreign partners. Yet another chance for us to stop playing a stupid game – Milei is a man we can work with. A Maduro is a man to be whacked at the earliest opportunity…so, too, the leaders of Mexico, Columbia, Cuba and Nicaragua. They aren’t patriots – they are factions, usually these days in cahoots with Cartels when not owned outright by them. When they say “death to America” they aren’t saying anything at all…they are just playing a game which allows them to keep stealing. I saw a talking head on TV who was asked what she thought about Mexico’s “President” condemning Trump…she correctly answered that she didn’t give a darn what the so-called President of Mexico said…because she’s not really the President. She was installed by various criminal means to be a facade for a cowardly and corrupt Ruling Class. We here in the USA might have to deal with her for practical reasons…but for goodness sake, don’t think of her as a Mexican patriot…she’s barely retained a shred of humanity at the moment. We hope for her repentance but we need to keep in mind what we’re dealing with.

Back on that wagon train, my friends…back on the path of bringing civilization to the world, and whacking the barbarians at the earliest opportunity. Because civilization is good.

Merry Christmas!

Mark Noonan26 Comments

Let’s not forget the reason for the season!

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus
that the whole world should be enrolled.
This was the first enrollment, 
when Quirinius was governor of Syria.
So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town.
And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth 
to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, 
because he was of the house and family of David, 
to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.
While they were there,
the time came for her to have her child, 
and she gave birth to her firstborn son.
She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, 
because there was no room for them in the inn.

Now there were shepherds in that region living in the fields 
and keeping the night watch over their flock.
The angel of the Lord appeared to them 
and the glory of the Lord shone around them, 
and they were struck with great fear.
The angel said to them,
“Do not be afraid;
for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy 
that will be for all the people.
For today in the city of David 
a savior has been born for you who is Christ and Lord.
And this will be a sign for you: 
you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes 
and lying in a manger.”
And suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel,
praising God and saying:
    “Glory to God in the highest
        and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests.”

For those of us believe this happened, it wasn’t just an event – it was the most important thing that ever happened. God came down from heaven and became one of us – fully man while remaining fully God. Come down out of a deep concern not for a mass of people, but each one of us, individually.

Many people disdain this notion on grounds of the size of the Universe – “come on, you think God would bother with the people on this bit of dust lost in the wastes of Space?”. Well, yeah. And, indeed, the fact that we’re not finding any life remotely near to us indicates that this mote of dust might be pretty important…perhaps even unique. One thing certain, if there is other life out there, it is so far away we’ll probably never encounter it (we would have heard some sort of intelligible radio transmission if there was anyone within, say, a hundred light years of us). Part of the problem is that people continue to think in human terms – the vastness of Space might contain many billions of planets, none of which have life…which, to us, seems strange. But perhaps God just likes making planets and they are each interesting to Him, even if not to us?

But the main thing, for us, is that event: God made flesh. If you don’t believe it happened, then the whole story is meaningless. If you believe it did, then you’ve opened up your mind to a startling concept: you’re worth something. In fact, worth quite a lot. You’re not a mere cipher. You matter. That, I think, is what really bothers people about the whole story – we don’t want to matter. Well, strictly speaking, we don’t want anyone else to matter. We don’t, that is, want to feel obligated to others (this, “we”, of course applying to the general run of humanity – not those who actually believe). We want a world where we don’t have to give a darn about others…where a “sorry to hear that” is sufficient before we move on to fussing about our own concerns.

The difference is the railroad engineer who drove Jews to the gas chambers and those who tried to stop Hitler…even if it meant not just their own deaths, but the deaths of everyone they knew. You see, a Stauffenberg knew that his life and the life of his wife and children were not more important than everyone else’s. That there was nothing to live for if one stood aside while others suffered. And, of course, Stauffenberg was a devout Christian. He went along with the Nazis as long as he could figuring that the fever would break and an honorable Germany would emerge…but it eventually became clear that the fever wasn’t going to break and action had to be taken…even if totally forlorn action. And so it was, and the world was given a hero for all ages to admire.

It is belief in that event in Bethlehem that makes the difference. Which makes real self-sacrifice even possible. Not the bravery that stands up to an enemy army, but the bravery that stands up to evil, itself, even when there is absolutely no hope you can beat it. Which says, aloud, “I don’t care what you do to me and mine, I am your enemy and will fight you”.

And, also, it lets us know – we can’t lose. To give a minor spoiler about Book X, I put into Fred’s mouth this very idea: that evil, in the end, is nothing. Just stand up to it. It is ok to feel pain. To die. Just don’t give into it. The Life of the World to Come will make all of this as if it has never been. Every tear will be wiped away. That is the most important thing, I think, for us to grasp today – we can’t lose. They will lose. They can’t do otherwise…they believe in nothing. A plague and a nuisance they very much are…but not at all important…unless, by God’s grace, they come to understand that it is Mary, laying her child in a manger, who was central to the most important event that ever happened.

At War With the Wicked

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The theft of welfare funds in Minnesota has been a topic but now we’re also learning what we already knew: huge amounts of money sent to Ukraine were siphoned off…and, in the end, it will be to corrupt Ukrainians, Europeans and Americans (and I won’t be surprised if some Russians got in on it, as well).

To be fair, almost as long as there has been war there have been war contractors and thus corruption. Napoleon dealt with it by periodically shooting a contractor…not actually to stop the theft, but to keep it to a dull roar. When governments are spending vast sums of money – that is, spending someone else’s money – the temptation to rake off is high. But what we’re seeing out of Ukraine is a bit astonishing. Huge amounts of money which was supposed to go to support the Ukraine battle and home fronts stolen and probably winding up in bank accounts around world…and done with the active and widespread cooperation of Ukrainian government officials, including officials of the Executive branch which is tasked with, you know, sending men to die in battle for the future of Ukraine. Roll that around in your head: the Russians are knocking at the gates of your country, they could break through at any time…every ounce of effort has to be directed to the front…but here were whole networks of Ukrainians (and others) using its as an opportunity to get hookers and blow money.

John Lennon once famously sung about a possible future with no religion – well, Johnny, here ya go. You got what you wanted: a society which doesn’t remotely believe in God. The result? Men dying in a pointless war while those who sent them to die steal everything not nailed down. It is all of a piece, you see? The whole nauseating degradation of the modern world stems from that – people don’t believe in God.

We have people writing weepy-eyed articles right now about how cruel and unjust it is for us to whack drug mules on the high seas. This is a form of theft – part and parcel with those who were stealing the rations of Ukrainian soldiers. It only seems like separate issues but you have to raise your point of view – the person getting a kick back for a Ukrainian defense contract is the same species of crook as the person writing an article essentially saying we have to let the drugs flow. That is, let the poison flow. Have to let people continue to die. Not just the drug addicts, but also people over the whole chain…remember, lots of people get murdered in Latin and South America as the Cartels fight for supremacy or just kill those who irritate them. They are casualties, too…just as dead as the addict in an American gutter. And just as much a precious human being as anyone else. But, we gotta let him die, you see? There’s this theory we pretend to have which says it is better for 100,000 people to die than to have even a slight infringement upon a right we just made up yesterday (in this case, a right to not be killed while smuggling poison). And people writing such articles are stealing – they are being paid money extracted from the productive by force or fraud in order to propagandize in favor of the productive suffering ever more.

And as I noted, its all because of a lack of belief in God. If you believe in God, even if you’re otherwise a criminal, you won’t be the sort of beast who steals rations from soldiers, nor live a nice life writing articles defending the rights of drug smugglers. A thief is a thief…these people are demons. And we have to start lumping them all together…the Minnesota welfare cheat, the Venezuelan drug smuggler, the EU-crat getting a rake off…I don’t care how nice they’re dressed or how many people they pay off to write up excuses, we have to see them for the malevolent, dishonest, soul-destroying demons they are. And I think Trump does – and that’s why he wants to end the war and whack the druggies. It puts the demons out of business. Somewhere in there, Trump believes in God – he’s human. Normal. One of us. And for ten years he’s dealt with these people and knows who they are, on a deep and philosophic level. I just hope that Vance has also internalized just what sort of people are opposing us, because this is going to be the work of generations.