constitutional issues

Nidal Hasan and the Consequences of Citizenship

Mark Noonan45 Comments

The execution of Nidal Hasan will be livestreamed and people right across the political spectrum are horrified. This is because people right across the political spectrum have, ultimately, no idea what they are doing. We have been living about a century now in a world of make-believe. We’ve pulled the wool over our own eyes. Conned ourselves out of our agency. Abdicated all authority over our own lives. We want to live a coddled existence. We don’t want to know about distasteful things. Except about sex, I guess – give us a good sex story and we’re all ears (and eyes). But about anything else it isn’t so much we don’t want to know but that we want to pretend we don’t know. And yet with all this, we still insist we are citizens and get a say in what happens.

There is no chance Trump will stay the sentence and even if the Courts decide to intervene late, it won’t work – we have a properly rendered sentence according to law and Hasan is guilty. In this, it doesn’t matter if the death penalty is a right or wrong thing to do…the laws in effect now provide for it and the thing will happen. The man will be dead. The horror expressed about livestreaming it isn’t about the enormous thing of taking a man’s life…it is about not wanting to see it taken. So that we can pretend it didn’t really happen. That we played no role in it. Guess what? If you’ve ever voted, you played a role in it. You may as well be on the firing squad. That is the thing about a Republic or a Democracy – all of the citizens are collectively responsible for what the government does. Don’t like this? Then I suggest you get yourself a king – let the king be responsible. You can be the slave and then you’ll have nothing to do with it.

Honestly, not only should his execution be televised, it should be compulsory viewing for everyone who wants a vote.

For us to be citizens, we must take responsibility. We must see what is going on and render judgement upon it, and thus upon ourselves. What do you want? Choose it. Take the consequences or benefits of that choice. Don’t try to pretend you didn’t play a role – even if you’re on the losing side of a political decision, you still participated in it. You decided. You pulled the trigger. You are free to abdicate this authority at any time – renounce your citizenship. Leave the country. Flee far away – go some place where others decide for you. If that’s what you want, fine – but don’t propose to participate along with me in governance if you wish to be free from the consequences of that participation.

As I’ve been saying for a while now, it is time for us to rejoin the real world. The world where actions have consequences. Where suffering is real. Where choices have to be made. Where men and women brace themselves up and do what needs to be done. The sooner we rejoin the real world the sooner our nation and civilization are saved – because that wool over our eyes has allowed an insidious sect of anti-humans to worm their way into the mechanics of our government. While we averted our eyes and pretended we had nothing to do with it, they are busily setting up a system where people can be killed on a whim. Where property doesn’t exist. Where the family is evil. Where God doesn’t exist. You might not like having to decide if a man lives or dies…but if you don’t make that decision, then others will for you…and they might decide it is time for you to die. Slaves, after all, don’t get a say. Citizens do.

Do you want to be a Citizen?

Tuckerism Must be Confronted

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Tucker Carlson has been getting a lot of play of late – the most recent outrageous thing he’s said is that there was essentially no point to Britain fighting Nazi Germany. His contention being that given Britain’s current condition, the effort 1939-1945 was wasted. To you and I, this is absurd – but to a twenty five year old who doesn’t really know history, but does know what Britain is like these days, it makes some sense. The person Tucker was interviewing during this dismissed his assertion – but he didn’t confront it. He didn’t refute it. Probably on grounds that he believes it isn’t worthy of refutation. But it is.

I’ve mentioned before that the two world wars were fought over one issue: that no nation may be allowed to alter the politico-economic system via violence. That all adjustments between nations and peoples must come about via fair negotiation between all interested parties. To be sure, this is a little bit of pie in the sky – but it is an ideal and a good one. And the first step towards any sort of rational policy is to set your ideal and then do all you can to approach it, knowing you’ll never get it exactly right.

Such an ideal is true even if never attempted before – and certainly prior to World War One violence dictated a lot of the world’s affairs. In fact, the Great Powers of Europe had used violence to create themselves as Great Powers. But we are supposed to live and learn and by, say, 1890, the world understood that the destruction and sheer social disruption of a major war wasn’t something worth doing. This is why in 1899 we had our first attempt at a world peace conference. Called into being by the new Czar of Russia – Nicholas II – it met at The Hague between May and July and, basing itself upon Lincoln’s rules of our Civil War, attempted to set some basic rules of war fighting designed to, as it were, limit the damage.

Certainly, there were skeptics of it. But it was the right thing to do – and the Permanent Court of Arbitration was established to resolve disputes between nations. It didn’t work; but it was a step towards the ideal: that all disputes will be resolved via fair give and take. Just fifteen years later, of course, the whole thing ran up on the rocks. And in that it is good to keep in mind just why it failed – because the German military class perceived in July of 1914 that the moment to strike had come. That is, they felt it was the perfect opportunity to permanently alter the politico-economic system in their favor via violence. Russia was surging towards another revolutionary outbreak. France was riven by political corruption and bitter political faction. Britain was on the verge of Civil War over Irish Home Rule. The Germans felt the opportunity afforded by the assassination in Sarajevo allowed them to engage in what they believed would be a short and totally victorious war…Russia dethroned as Great Power, France reduced to satellite status, the UK forced to stay out of Continental affairs. From there, the German leadership saw itself striding from power to power to ultimate global domination.

It didn’t work. Because the world stood up to it – especially Britain, which held that no matter what, they couldn’t let Germany get her way via warfare. The US, as well, though very tardily and with nonsense from Wilson about making the world safe for Democracy. That wasn’t an issue at all – how people governed themselves was irrelevant. How they conducted themselves towards other powers was the only point. Victory was secured, at great cost, and the principle was broadly accepted – no war. Must negotiate. Anyone who starts a war is a criminal.

The rise of Hitler’s regime threw all that into a cocked hat. The Allied failure to properly punish the Germans left Germany with vast latent power. Hitler’s rank dishonesty in dealing with foreign powers helped the world walk right into his trap. He wanted war. he wanted to use violence to get his way. He felt that anyone unwilling to use violence was a subhuman who deserved extermination. But the ideal was still there – and so France and Britain tried again and again to get Hitler to accept a price for peace. When Hitler showed in Poland that no amount of concessions would move him off his goal, there was nothing else to do but fight. And so the war was fought – once again on the principle that you can’t use violence to get ahead. That the Nazi regime acted with unbelievable brutality towards Jews merely made its defeat even more morally imperative…but the defeat of Germany was necessary even if Germany had never harmed a single Jew. The Germans had to be forced off the notion that they could conquer their way to power and prosperity.

And they were. And in 1945 the principle was solid. And the world could look forward to a long peace – except for one, small problem: the leaders of the victorious West were a combination of idiots and cowards. American. British. French. Everyone. All morons and cowards. They took the victory the people of the West had won and threw it away at the first opportunity. Sure, Communist infiltration played a role in the decisions made…but looking back on it, they’d have chosen no differently even if there were no Communists. They had come to loath their own people. They felt the two World Wars were caused by the common men and women of the West rather than the folly of the Western Ruling Class. They were determined to divest their peoples of power as soon as possible…positively throwing away their territories in a rush to give power to bands of armed thugs in their former colonial possessions.

And while they were doing this, they were busily sapping the moral and intellectual strength of the Western people. Dumbing down education. Denigrating Christianity. Family. Hard Work Sobriety. Thrift. Basic decency. All were eroded away because, it was felt, Western peoples were too dangerous. And here we sit in 2026 with mobs of feral Third World youths rioting in France as the French people cower, more afraid of being called racists than of defending their ancient civilization. Seeing this, an ill educated Western population can easily be convinced that it is such people who are the suckers. The heirs of Christianity. Of Republican ideals. Of hard work, family and being law abiding. What does it get them? A savage beating them while their own police run away. This is where the likes of Tucker get their audience…because nobody actually likes things as they are. But the youths of the West today don’t know their own history – only a sick, lying parody of it, presented to them by a Ruling Class which hates them. But they can see it is bad – and they are looking for some way to respond. Some world view which gives them a place – and a purpose. People like Carlson provide it. Tuckerism being a species of propaganda which is designed – very cleverly – to present itself as the bulwark of the West while actually being a poison designed to kill it.

And this is fueled by people who hate the West. Russian, Chinese and Islamist money is ultimately behind all of it. They want the people of the West to continue to despise themselves – but now to assist the anti-West in destroying the West. Nothing better than convincing the kids that the West was immoral to fight the World Wars. That the Jews had and have it coming. Not to turn back to what made the West great – especially its Christian heritage – but to simply boil over with hatred, and help set things on fire. Most people dismiss Tucker and his like as unimportant. They aren’t. They are very important and must be confronted. And part of that confrontation must be some admissions: most importantly that the West has been fooled. That it was mostly fooled by Westerners doesn’t change the fact of being fooled.

We have to do this because we must give the youth of the West a path to reviving our civilization. A faith in God, a faith in Republican ideals. A faith in family. This will require two simultaneous efforts – getting the foreign savages out of our nations, and hammering hard at those who are being paid by anti-Western forces to subvert the West. We can’t continue to allow the barbarians to remain here…but we also can’t simply allow people to lie in public. I know: I’m once again back on that subject: that lies are the problem. But, they are – they have nearly destroyed us and they are being used to finish us off. We either stop the liars, or we will die. Tucker and those like him cannot be allowed to appear in public to spread lies. What these traitors are saying cannot be first amendment protected. Even if they claim they are patriots – they aren’t, not a one of them – we still can’t allow them to lie. Keep in mind while they are lying – allowed to lie – so, too, are the Communist and Third World enemies of the West. And even if we got rid of the Communists and the foreign savages, if we retain in our public square a pack of liars, then eventually the Communists and savages will be back. Only when all of them are gone can we fully restore America – and the West.

Racism Fatigue

Mark Noonan85 Comments

It is just getting so very tiresome. The racism stuff. You know what I always skip over when looking for something to watch? The latest entry in “black people triumph over racism” movies. They are just boring as heck. And in two different ways: they aren’t historically accurate and all of their views are 21st century…they don’t, that is, even try to tell us what a black person in, say, 1940 might have thought about things. They tell us what a “studies” graduate wants the past to be…not what the past actually was. And they never show the real triumph – that black Americans from 1865 to 1965 switched from being almost entirely illiterate field hands to being integral to the highest aspects of American economic and cultural life. You’ll get a movie claiming the black woman got us to the Moon (an absurdity as 100,000 people got us there)…but not the movie of the black sharecropper who wound up middle class.

But we can’t talk about that – it shows America works. That even when emerging from slavery and being held down by various legal and cultural bigotries, if you are hard working and sober, you will get ahead. If you look at the run of movies and such on it over the past 20 years then apparently highly educated black slaves fought for the freedom of a fat welfare chick to have a bizarre hair style. And I think we’re all getting done with that.

I first noticed it about ten years ago among white youngsters – a growing contempt for the whole race system. And why not? They were being told from preschool that their white skin makes them devils who can never be cured of racism and who must crawl on their knees just to be barely tolerable in polite society. They could see themselves striving and getting nothing while other kids, with other skin colors, quickly figured out that they had been given a pass…don’t do the work, back talk, even be violent and the system would still reward them, and better than the white or Asian kids who actually put in the effort. People do notice injustice. It can’t be missed. Just as a black lawyer in 1926 could clearly tell that society was unjustly discriminating against him, so can a white kid today see it.

And we do need to get completely done with it. Race must play zero role in how we decide things. I don’t care how much you claim racism caused you a problem. Just deal with it. There were black people forging ahead when genuine Klansmen were out for blood. If your great-great-grandpa could become literate and own his home with that going on, then you’ve got no excuse. These days, the Klan is a division of the SPLC and so ain’t much of a problem. But here’s the thing – race will become a problem if we keep dwelling on it.

That is, if we keep up this system today of racial spoils where if you’re dark skinned you get advantages not available to white or Asian skin, then guess what will happen? The Pretend Racism being used today will become Real Racism – the whites and Asians will join up to assert privileges for themselves…and as the combination massively outnumbers the Black/Brown population, they will win and do whatever the heck they want. And feel good about doing it. The attempt by the Left to elevate Race isn’t going to lead to peace and justice…its going to lead to a system more overtly racist than anything Jim Crow ever thought of.

I understand that the Texas university system is now dispensing with the various “studies” program – that is, the mills which grind out bogus degrees while propoagandizing young people into believing that there’s a cabal of white racists out to get them. This is a good first step – but we have to get after it all. Racism must end – and the only way to end it is to destroy the groups promoting it. Easy to spot: they mostly identify themselves by some sort of civil rights activity. Defund them. Arrest them (we’ve seen in BLM how the leaders are just raking it in for themselves). Insult them on a day to day basis. Bring suit (civil and criminal) against them for conspiring to deny civil rights. Get rid of these hate filled leeches…so that we may have peace, and an end to racism.

Some Court Rulings

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The Supreme Court reaffirmed Sullivan today – keep in mind that Sullivan was a rather tortuous ruling which had really only one purpose in mind: allowing Martin Luther King’s people to lie with impunity about Southern rednecks. The genesis of Sullivan (a government official in Alabama) was that King’s people had placed an ad in the New York Times to bring attention to King’s cause. All well and good: but they had fabricated several of their assertions in an attempt to paint King in the best light and Alabama authorities in the worst. Sullivan, the official most directly concerned sued and won – including up to the Alabama Supreme Court because there was zero doubt that there were false statements in the ad which had defamed Sullivan (and, by extension, the entirety of Alabama government). What the Supreme Court did is take valid First Amendment protections (we can say what we want) and turn them on their head by saying “you can lie about an official unless that official can meet nearly impossible standards of proof of malice”.

Nothing in what Sullivan – the person – did in any way inhibited even the most robust free speech. All he was going after was redress for lies. Not mistakes. Not misinterpretations. Not opinions disagreed with. Lies. Bald faced falsehoods which had no basis in fact. Additionally, totally unnecessary lies…that is, the case for King was strong enough based upon the unvarnished truth. King’s people could have retracted, apologized and then got on with it. But that would have been a win for…you know…those people. The Rednecks. Dirty people without proper credentials. What’s a bit of lying compared to the proper, Progressive outcome?

The Court might not have intended all the knock-on effects…but they have been devastating. The whole culture of lies we have in America today stems from the ruling, which made it nearly impossible to punish lies broadcast over any type of media. It didn’t provide protection for free speech – it just protected lies. It completely negated the reason for the First Amendment…to ensure vigorous debate about policy. Now its just a competition to see who can lie the most brazenly and crudely enforce their lies in the public square.

The Supreme Court also ruled today that it is Election Week, not Election Day – essentially giving States the ability to drag out that vote count as long as they like (ie, until the Democrat wins). Now, there is some basis for the ruling – elections, even to federal office, are under the control of the States. But, on the other hand, the Constitution does say it all has to be done on the same day. Not the same week (or longer). The correct ruling would have been all ballots received before close of polls on Election Day are valid – but while we have a 6-3 Court majority on most issues, it is 5-4 against on any issue which would seriously impede the Democrats. That is, if a Ruling would harm Democrat power in any significant way, we’ll find two of the supposedly Conservative Justices knifing us. That way they can go to parties in northern Virginia and point out that they screwed over those dirty Rednecks. Again.

Ultimately, judicial review is going to be set aside – it is something that the Executive has given to the Judiciary as a matter of courtesy. There is no warrant for it in the Constitution. Can’t stop the judges from issuing their rulings…but whether or not they’ll be obeyed is entirely discretionary. I’d prefer we keep the old way of doing it…but I cannot agree that 5 unelected judges get to make such clearly political decisions for us.

On the good news front, the Court ruled that Trump can fire FTC commissioners at will. This is important as it gets rid of what is called Humphrey’s Executor – a 1935 Court decision which held that Congress may via statute limit the President’s ability to fire Executive branch employees. This new ruling – Trump v. Slaughter – restores proper Executive authority. By extension, it might well get rid of all restrictions on firing Executive branch employees. This means that the civil service protections which have saddled us with liberal bureaucrats to undermine GOP Presidents might be gone. We’ll see how that plays out.

UPDATE: The Court ruled absurdly on the citizenship case…figuring that a person can cross the border illegally today and give birth to a citizen tomorrow. No sane reading of the 14th can sustain this…but the three liberals were joined by Roberts and Barrett who want sooooo badly to let their liberal friends know they’re really cool kids and can they please sit at the table?

Trump does retain tools on this – first off, of course, continuing to deport. Also, cracking down on those who employ or otherwise assist illegals to stay in country. Revoke visas for women of child bearing years. Lots of things…but, now, the Court has made it so that we’ll have to amend the Constitution. Know how I want it written?

Whereas only a complete idiot would think the 14th Amendment secures citizenship to the children of illegals born in the United States, this Amendment states you have to be born to two American citizens within the territory of the United States to be a natural born citizen.

I Implore You, Stop Being Idiots: the Democrats are Cheating

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Ramen conceded on election night. She knew she had been beaten and wouldn’t advance to the general. And then, miracle of miracles, she got an absolutely massive share of the mail-in ballots and surged ahead of second-place Pratt.

This does not happen in an honest system. The mail-in ballots might very well favor Democrats but they would favor all the Democrats, not just the one the Democrats need to get into second place to guarantee no non-Democrat can win in November. But that is what happened – it was an all-Ramen all the time voter surge…a massive number of Angelenos saved their votes for her and dropped them in the mail just in time to make sure she’d advance.

Statistical improbability is proof of fraud.

And it doesn’t matter how you spin it, it is fraud. Even if it legal under California and Los Angeles law, it is fraud – it is altering the election to favor the Ruling Class. But here come the Never Trump Republicans: “sure it looks bad, but we don’t have proof of fraud”. These morons still don’t get it: our opponents would eat us alive if they thought it would give them power and wealth. There is nothing they won’t do for power – no lie too ridiculous, no skullduggery too low. How are Democrats responding to GOPers still giving the benefit of the (non-existent) doubt? They’re working on axing Hilton from the November contest. They are cheating right in front of us and laughing at us while they do it…Never Trump: “Gee, guys, this looks really bad”. Implying that if the Democrats can make the cheat look a little more honest, it would be ok.

A Republic cannot survive cheating. It just can’t. If the people don’t feel that things are on the level, then they will opt for whatever Caesar comes along to who will at least give them their due…or at bare minimum destroy those who cheated their way into power and money. We cannot endure the fraud we see in California – it is not just a California problem: it threatens the life of our Republic. I do hope Team Trump is looking at this – rumor is they are; what I’d like to see is all of the election workers in Los Angeles arrested on civil rights violations…by participating in a crooked system, they are violating the rights of the people. I do think the laws already on the books would cover this…because, remember, you don’t necessarily have to be a conscious part of the cheat to be guilty of participation in it…if a reasonable person would suspect, then you have to suspect.

But outside of that, our side has to stop giving in to it…not in any way, shape or form. Call it out. Call those defending it liars (because that is what they are). Stop trying to find legal loopholes for them…they won’t find one for you. In fact, they’ll indict you in a heartbeat on totally false charges if they think it’ll help their cause. The Democrats are not normal people – they are insane, dishonest, ignorant and cruel. It doesn’t matter if they fully understand how destructive they are – we must understand it, and act accordingly. They are out to totally destroy us on the false notion that we’re all little Hitlers in the making…we have to destroy them just because of this, lest they destroy us.

Yeah, Lies Are Still the Problem

Mark Noonan49 Comments

I’ve talked endlessly about lies but I want to talk about it again – because now more and more people are picking up on it. But not all. I still see all too many on the Right still saying things like “why would you say that?” or “do you not realize what you’re saying?” when they confront a Leftist or Never Trumper over a lie. That is, they aren’t just calling them what they are: liars.

You might remember the World Famous Expert, Tom Nichols: he was allegedly on the Right until the advent of Trump in 2015 and he’s now gone full Leftist Never Trump kook – he had a post on X saying, and I quote, “the people cheering the submarine attack on the IRIS Dena seem to forget that the US Navy has surface vessels that could have captured the ship, and held the crew (or allowed them to defect). But apparently, it was important to prove that the Navy can still torpedo a frigate”. Nichols’ claim to fame – his claim to be an Expert, that is – stems from his tenure at the Naval War College. In other words, he knows. He’s not some person with limited knowledge of naval affairs. You don’t seek to capture an enemy on the high seas. The capture of enemy vessels went out when ships went from sail to steam – you sight an enemy and you sink her, that is what modern naval warfare is about. When the Brits put down the Bismarck – and we put down the Yamato – the attack was merciless. The British fired 2,800 rounds at Bismarck scoring at least 400 hits…when her guns were silent, her decks awash and the crew trying to abandon ship, they fired one last torpedo at the hulk. For Yamato, we sent wave after wave of planes in to bomb, torpedo and strafe her…the only reason it was three waves is because by the time the fourth wave got there she had rolled over and exploded…more than 3,000 of her 3,300 man crew dying with her.

Keep in mind that both ships were pretty much helpless from the start – the Bismarck’s steering gear was jammed and so she could only steam in a slow circle: a complete sitting duck. Yamato had no air cover and our strafing massacred her AA gunners in their unarmored positions, allowing later waves to just come in, line her up in the sights and blow her all to hell and gone. That is modern naval warfare. The men on both sides didn’t ask for quarter and didn’t complain if they came in second. Guarantee you not one German or Japanese sailor who survived those actions had any rancor towards the British and American seamen. War at sea is a hard calling.

Nichols knows this. So, why did he say what he said? Because he’s a liar. Nothing more. And a paid liar, into the bargain. Perhaps even being paid – directly or roundabout – by foreign enemies to lie. And he is, of course, just one of thousands. People like him just pumping out lie after lie after lie. All designed to sap American unity and American will. To sow doubts. To get Americans fighting among themselves. To do anything but support America – and especially American victory. In Iran we have scored the most astonishing, lopsided victory America has had since Manila Bay in 1898. For very minimal losses, we have completely destroyed the enemy’s ability to impact the course of the war. How did we Americans view that? Like this:

Heroic. Resolute. Right into the fight without hesitation. You know: like Americans. Right now, we have the like of these men in battle…soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. Of course, some women, too. But they are our heroes…we should be getting stories of their deeds…thrilling tales of how they took the fight to the heart of the enemy. What we get is lies…lies about bombed schools. Lies about closed straights. Lies about how wrong it is to torpedo an enemy.

And, my friends, it really has to stop. We’re robbing ourselves of our future by being nice to liars. The kids growing up today deserve to know their nation is great and is the home of heroes…and that we are the good guys, fighting for decency in a world gone mad.

I still do not know exactly how we do it…but until we find a way to make a liar pay – and I mean with the literal skin off his back – then I don’t know how we will survive.

Human Rights and the Operation of Law

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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.

Fight, Fight, Fight!

Mark Noonan29 Comments

Some people are in a bad way today and it got me thinking of a passage in the upcoming (promise!) Book X of the Mirrors series:


It is never time to be depressed – get out there and, well live. And if that gets us a bullet in our brain, then at least we didn’t crawl.

One of the smartest people I follow in X has pointed out that if we dispense with the filibuster we’ll soon find ourselves in a cold civil war…which may then become hot. And, he’s right. There is a dreadful risk in such a thing but there’s dreadful risk in all action, and even inaction is fraught with danger. We’re rather on the knife edge here.

You see, the Democrats just elected in Virginia a man who has fantasized about killing Republican children. The Democrat leaders did not distance themselves from the man. This indicates two things, both bad:

  1. The Democrat base is horrifically violent and ready to kill.
  2. The Democrat base is incapable of the basic due diligence of being a citizen.

Whether any particular Democrat want us dead or is simply very stupid it all works out the same…because those who want us dead count on the votes of the stupid for power. The whole Democrat edifice is a standing threat to our lives, our fortune and our and sacred honor. We have to start behaving accordingly. And, actually, Trump has – certainly since Butler. The thought you might be killed any moment by these lunatics does concentrate the mind wonderfully. But at the moment most of us don’t feel like we’re in the crosshairs so our minds aren’t as concentrated as Trump’s. But we are in the crosshairs. It is time to concentrate.

If we dispensed with the filibuster we would have at least 14 months in which to enact laws without any hindrance by Democrats. We could do quite a lot which would gut their power. Trump already is, but if you do it legislatively then it is a very deadly blow. And, sure, if the Democrats win a trifecta before the Left is destroyed this will go badly for us…but if the Democrats get a trifecta and we’ve never struck a blow, then that just goes worse for us. Might as well do what we can.

I am reminded that the anti-Communist forces in Russia in 1917 didn’t lift a finger to save the Provisional Government. They all pinned their hopes on this, that or the other thing happening after that government was gone. But the trouble was that once Lenin kicked out the Provisional Government and assumed power he had the ultimate levers of power in his hands. The time to stop Lenin wasn’t after his October coup, but before. Even if that meant a few norms were tossed aside. Nothing that could have happened in getting rid of Lenin was worse than what Lenin was going to be. And, so, like that, nothing we do to hit the Democrats is worse than what they’ll do if we don’t hit them.

So, hit them.

And be happy about it – be a happy warrior. Our goal in life is to have a tenured Harvard professor struggling to make ends meet bagging our groceries. To bring down the Ruling Class. To overturn the system. To have a revolution. They must lose – and lose, in the end, everything. No power. No money. No position. No prestige. Ridiculous, useless relics of a dead past that will never return. We do that, first and foremost, by taking away their access to government money.

Not for nothing did a Democrat Senator float the idea of funding the government merely on Trump’s promise that he won’t fire any more government employees. It is that crucial to them. It can’t be overstated how utterly dependent the Democrats are upon essentially laundering taxpayer money into DNC coffers. How much they depend on their ability to get useless people well paid government sinecures. How if they don’t have access to money, nobody will pay any attention to them. Their whole existence since the 1930’s has been based on passing out government cash. And this is our best chance to take that way – we have the trifecta. If we don’t have to get 60 Senate votes to cut spending…if we only have to get 50 plus Vance, we can gut the Deep State.

And, sure, with a risk that the Democrats – facing total destruction – will provoke a violent civil war. That is always in the cards with them – especially now after they’ve been fed for ten years on the lie that Trump is Hitler and they are the Brave Resistance. These lunatics are already killing based upon lies…won’t take a lot more to get them killing in droves. But it will go better for us, should it come to blows, if we’ve already cut off the funds. If they are on the outside trying to overthrow, rather than on the inside pretending they are defending America.

So, let’s do it. Risks and all! Better to have it out right now rather than desperately trying to undo things after a future far Left Democrat victory at the polls (however engineered). My bet is that the Democrats simply don’t have a lot of people willing to kill for them – that is, not enough to pose an actual threat to a heavily armed MAGA population. That even if they try violence, it will end badly for them and pretty quickly. But we’ve also got the hope that if we just cut off the funds, this all ends…the Left vanishes in a puff of intersectional smoke…and we all look back and wonder how those people ever were in power.