Rick from Oregon writes:

I refused to fly after 2001. … The day I got out of prison I made an exception because I had to be in Oregon by the following Monday. When I arrived at George Bush International Airport I felt like I had stepped right back into prison. There were prison guards and everything. And people walking around after their groping like zombies staring into screens. I thought at first that I would get the Invasion of the Body Snatcher scream from somebody because I still had on my prison issued “Jacki Chans.” But nobody was even noticing me. They were too concerned with missing a Twitter or FB update. I was safe. 

I kept those shoes until last month but I really don’t know why. 

So you can dress appropriately on your next flight.

Their Resistance grows and grows! 

Not only did their opposition help drive Ohio’s last “health director” from office several months ago, but the new one lasted mere moments before she, too, resigned!

The severe criticism

Bravo, Ohioans!

and harassment

More cheers!

of former Health Director Dr. Amy Acton caused her appointed successor to quit just a few hours after she was introduced by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine.

“In conversations preparing for the transition to the Ohio Department of Health, I was informed that the former director’s family had faced harassment from the public,” said Dr. Joan Duwve … “While I have dedicated my life to improving public health,” blah, blah, blah, “I withdrew my name from consideration to protect my family from similar treatment.”

YEE HAW!!! Would that all dictators so feared their subjects! Ohioans can be very, very proud of themselves!

Maybe they’ll overthrow their chief tyrant, too. At a rally for Trump in Zanesville, Ohio, “Vice President Mike Pence” addressed the faithful, and when he “mentioned …[the] name” of Ohio’s evil little governor, Mike DeWack–sorry, DeWine, the crowd booed! YES!!!!!  This becomes even more delicious when you remember that DeWack is a Rethuglican! Yet Rethuglicans jeered him! (There are so many offenses for which to excoriate DeWack that I ought not stoop to ad hominem mockery—but I can’t resist! Consider his photo: doesn’t he personify the name, “Poindexter”? Apologies to all actual Poindexters out there.)

Nor were Zanesville’s sneers the only evidence of his subjects’ animosity:

DeWine also got a poor reception at a Trump campaign stop in suburban Columbus on Sept. 8.

A woman drew “sustained applause”

More kudos to Ohioans!

from the audience of about 100 when she said to the event’s moderator, Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem: “I thought you were an interesting choice given we have a spineless governor in our state. This is pretty hypocritical that they would invite you, although I’m glad they did…”

Meanwhile, the percentage of Ohioans who approve of DeWack’s totalitarian “handling of the coronavirus” has plunged from “81% … in April to 58% in late July and late August. … DeWine has sparred with the conservative Republicans in the Ohio legislature throughout the pandemic. Three of them last month moved to impeach him in a longshot bid that hasn’t gained any traction.”

Because too many Ohioans are Marxists who camp out in front of their TVs. Wouldn’t you think they’d wise up to the fact that

DeWine continues to enjoy the support of the state political establishment. He is up for re-election in 2022.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha! 

Like all despots, DeWack excuses his crimes and his victims’ hatred:

“Look, we’re making tough decisions.”

Not as tough as Ohio’s serfs are, many of whom now choose between buying food or clothes for their kids. And all thanks to you, Poindexter.

“We understand that this is a tough time …”

Do you? Prove it.

“We have some people who are unemployed.”

Some????? “Ohio’s unemployment rate was 8.9% in August, nearly unchanged from July … Ohio’s unemployment rate had been last above 10% in 2010. The April rate of 17.6% was higher than at any point in published state records by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics going back 1976 [sic].” 

“We have people who don’t want to wear a mask. And a lot of different things. I’m going to keep focusing on what I need to do. I think that’s my job. …”

Wrong again, Poindexter. Your job, your only job, is to protect our freedom from encroachment, either by free-lance criminals or those gangs in the statehouse, county commissions, municipal fiefdoms, etc.

If you can’t do that—and you demonstrably can’t—vamoose. Go suffer the catastrophic unemployment you’ve inflicted on so many of your taxpayers. 

Whitney Webb’s article: “Bipartisan” Washington Insiders Reveal Their Plan for Chaos if Trump Wins the Election.

Joe Biden, struggling to make it through another speech: “It’s estimated that 200 million people will die, probably by the time I finish this talk.”

The Soviet-style government regulation of the restaurant industry in my town is truly absurd.  After given permission by our wise and omniscient overlords to open up bar service at restaurants, those that did put maybe three to six bar stools at a bar that holds 30-40.  Just to be safe one establishment, City Oyster, placed huge plastic shields between every two seats, creating an animal-in-a-cage feeling.  Rumor has it that they will also do away with dishes and silverware and just throw a piece of meat on the bar in front of you when you order food.

Another establishment, Johnnie Brown’s, an open-air bar/restaurant, hired security guards with gigantic letters saying “SECURITY” on their shirts to kick anyone off the public sidewalk who slows down to listen to the live music.  They also have a very charming large sign on the sidewalk that says “Mask Up or Move On!”  Even people who have “masked up” are still kicked off the sidewalk.  Of course, the private “security gaurd” has no more legal right to kick me off the public sidewalk than I do of him, but the city government assigns a cop to stand around to make it appear even more Cold War East German-ish.

I have mentioned the absurdity of all this to bartenders and restaurant managers and their response always seems scripted:  “We’ll take whatever we can get,” they uniformly say.  They are grateful for whatever crumbs our wise and omniscient overlords throw their way.

…contacted me about his new website. (And here you thought I was a mild-mannered writer with a ho-hum existence!) “Gorilla School” teaches martial tactics and guerilla warfare to civilians via an “editorial corps … led by a former Army Special Forces NCO in the 18-series military career field. While traditionally, guerrilla warfare and its auxiliary topics have been used overwhelmingly by leftist, communist insurgencies — its techniques, tactics, and procedures (TTP) are catholic (universal).” Given that Marxists nationwide Burn, Loot and Murder (I stole that from an email, but I can’t remember whose! Write me if you want credit) with Our Rulers’ blessing, this material could save your life, home and family.

A caveat, however: anyone can write me and claim whatever he pleases. I know little of modern strategy; I extensively researched that of the eighteenth century for my novels, Halestorm and Abducting Arnold, but I suspect methods have changed since then. So while I found this website fascinating, I’m a poor judge of its accuracy. I’d appreciate it if those of you with tactical knowledge would review the information for us.

‘Steel on Steel’ brief interview with Anton (15m) where he lays out his hypothesis.

Anton’s essay, The Coming Coup?

Michael Anton was also interviewed by The American Conservative.

He has a book about 2020 election called ‘The Stakes’

Mr. Anonymous responded to The COVIDCon Plays Ball with the reminder that

some substances are known to cause cancer only in the state of California.

Is Sacramento a parody, or do you suppose they’re serious?

Now that Pastor John MacArthur of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles has opened the church he closed earlier this year, he’s done so with a vengeance. He continues to defy California’s anti-constitutional and totalitarian government by conducting worship—indoors, no less. And though Leviathan roars about “arrest and jail time,” our hero stands firm.

“We received a letter with the threat that we could be fined or I could go to jail for a maximum of six months,” MacArthur said … “… My biblical hero, apart from the Lord Jesus Christ, is the Apostle Paul. And when he went into a town, he didn’t ask what the hotel was like – he asked what the jail was like because he knew that’s where he was going to spend his time. So I don’t mind being a little apostolic. If they want to tuck me into jail, I’m open for a jail ministry. I’ve done a lot of other ministries and haven’t had the opportunity to do that one, so bring it on.”

Shame on American Christians, that they aren’t marching to the defense of this valiant brother. Instead,

many church leaders have openly opposed MacArthurs [sic] stance — Al Mohler even suggested that what he’s doing could be “malpractice” and 9Marks, Jonathan Leeman and Mark Dever have taken opposite stances. Most leaders have refused to stand with him or ignored him altogether. 

We’ll atone for such sinful neglect with fervent prayers that God will not only uphold His people but destroy California’s wicked government. And thanks to Rocco Piserchia for alerting us to this heartening update.

If a coup occurs in this country, we will know exactly who the perps are. The games that are being played about coup outcomes of the election do not go far enough. The material I read does not speculate about what patriots in America will do. I’ll tell you what they’ll do. If military people want to create a coup and then take to bunkers, then they’ll be sealed off and left to die. If they decide to stay above ground, their houses will be burned to the ground. As for them, they’ll be hung with great haste. The same fate awaits their aiders and abettors. If the planners look ahead just one or two more steps, they should fear for their lives. And if they come out into the open any further than they already have, they are placing their lives in great jeopardy even without a coup. Who will be the patriots who will stop them? The plotters and planners will be very surprised at how many people are itching for such a fight and willing to risk their lives and bodies to rid the land of these traitors.

Ed responded to the question, Given That Marxists Murdered Millions of Their Compatriots, Why Are Jews So Often Marxist?

Being Jewish myself, I may have some insight into why so many of us have become the useful idiots of those who mean us and the country no good.

What attracted many European Jews, especially the intellectuals, to Marxist socialism was the hope that the utopia socialism promised would, regarding all people as equal and- deracinated (very important,) end the scourge of anti-semitism so that Jews would finally dissolve into the general population, keeping, as an artifact, the Jewish (i.e. the non-Christianized) aspect of “Judeo-Christian” religion. That’s how Zionism came about, the disillusion that followed the Dreyfus trial, the conviction that the “Gentiles” will never let us become ordinary, non-discriminated against slobs like everyone else.

Then came the Nazis in “the most highly evolved country of Western Civilization” as though to prove the point with the Holocaust, the worst pogrom yet whose collective trauma resides, to this day and probably for a long time to come, deep in the Jewish psyche. …

But hope springs eternal and young, liberal, educated Jews like me, back in the sixties, saw in the Civil Rights movement and in Dr. King’s rhetoric, the resurrection of the old socialist hope, the messianic hope really, that tribal, ethnic racial distinctions might, this time, be abolished and a Miltonian paradise regained at last achieved. This is Bernie who’s never done anything of note, who knows nothing about economics and even less about human nature and who’s gotten rich off politics and the fat of the land. It’s also the detestable Chomsky and his contempt for his own people.

And on the other side, the Jewish neo-cons are, in their way, just as bad.

Some of us — Ira Katz, for example — try to sound the warning but we get ignored or censored. As I drive around the affluent neighborhoods here and view the many BLM and “nobody’s a stranger” signs on the lily white lawns, some of them Jewish lawns, I think that it must be the Passover and these must be the blood on the doorpost signs telling the Angel of Death, “Skip this house. We’re the righteous. You want those racists over there.”

Progressives have a death wish that those who despise us will be happy to accommodate. I’ve never seen a group of craven virtue signalers more oblivious, many liberal Jews among us. You’d think that Jews, of all people, would learn from our history. What’s sad and not exactly clear to me is how and why so many of us refuse to do so.

When I thanked Ed for these insights, he added, 

You know how W.E.B. Dubois wrote about the “twoness” of African-American identity. Some of that might apply to Jewish-American identity. For some Jewish people, it’s like aggh, we’re losing our identity and becoming generic white Americans (nothing wrong with that in my book) and then some Jew bashing incident happens to alert us that uh oh, we’re not quite white, culturally if not racially. …

Meanwhile, Christians are just as guilty. They pander to BLM regardless of how many believers communism has martyred and continues to martyr worldwide. They “repent” of racism yet never pray for their sisters and brothers under persecution. They refuse to condemn Marxism (“That’s politics! We concentrate on the Gospel”) while leaving the churches in California to twist in its tyrannical wind. 

So when we ask why so many Jews are Marxist despite this hellish philosophy’s track-record, we ought actually ask why so much of humanity is.

As WWIII enters its seventh wearisome month, resistance builds. A tad slow in coming, certainly, but let us welcome the lawsuits (albeit 6 months late), the protests (why didn’t folks simply defy the anti-constitutional and unenforceable mandates? Why don’t they now instead of wasting time and energy asking permission to defy them?), and Parson Goat’s repentance (he should never have closed the church in the first place, but at least he’s vowing not to do so again).

Meanwhile, patriots chronicle their battles against the enemy’s sacred fetish, the mask.

Bo writes from Texas:  

Twice in a week my wife and I went to fancy high-end restaurants. Once to celebrate our anniversary and second just because we wanted to.  Both times we were met at the door with BIG signs saying we have to wear fear masks. If we didn’t have one they would provide one. Well, we do not wear those things but we wanted good food. Imagine that: They gave us napkins we could hold in front of our faces. Napkins?? As soon as we sat down we could dismiss the napkins. After that, we were free to go to the restroom, to the bar, back to the car to get something, move around. No need for fear masks. It’s a joke. Oh even better: We were sitting at a table and enjoying our food. The restaurant wanted to show 75% occupancy I guess so ONE table was closed. Until some customers came in and wanted to sit outside too. Then it was open. None of this makes sense to anybody.

His wife also

had to be admitted to the hospital for a few days (minor thing).  Of course, hospitals are fanatics about the fear masks so I for once had to succumb and wear one just to visit my wife. All the nurses agreed this was stupid and no reason for it. Still, they all wore fear masks.

The only people I saw not wearing fear masks were?? Yes, correct. Doctors and surgeons. They were walking up and down the aisles with no mask. They came into my wife’s room on their rounds without masks. Why are doctors not wearing the fear mask? 

Oh, I think we all know the answer to that.

From Texas, JVC relates,

Last week on my weekly trip to town for feed and groceries, I noticed that the Walmart “greeter” was not at the start of the entrance alley offering masks to the great unmasked public.   Today, not only was the greeter missing, but all the ropes and barricades that delineated the entrance and exit files were gone too.  Now I’m rather isolated here on the ranch, and do not watch TV, so I thought for a moment that the great masquerade was over at last.  However seeing the (slim) majority of shoppers still covered up quickly disabused me of that notion.  The final grin came at check out.  The young lady was wearing some sort of mesh stocking around her neck and mouth–nose uncovered.  I commented that it looked like she could breathe freely and she just laughed, and gave me a big thumbs up for being sans mask myself.  Then as I was taking my change, she asked that I not report her as some other customer had. 

When did the land of the free become the home of the snitch?

Brutus in South Carolina recounts that he  

Went to the local feed and seed yesterday and my wife said I would have to wear a mask as they will tell me to.  I said no problem as the owner is pushing 70 or so and it is his store.

Standard sign on the door said only 3 people allowed in side and you had to wear a mask.

A young couple were heading out [with their child] and all three averted their eyes from my maskless face and I decided not to speak to them, which I would usually do in a corporate store.

There is nothing more wimpy than a man who will not make eye contact with another man, especially in close proximity to his wife and child.

I had my mask in my hand and, as I noticed the owner was not wearing a mask, I put it in my pocket.

We had a good conversation as I purchased some seeds and plants and we each talked about our gardening plans. …

Trip to Lowes Sunday went without a hitch.  Saw several without masks and I spoke to one couple, saying it was good to see someone who was not following false information from a corrupt government.  They laughed and said not on your life.  I said you must not watch TV and they said no we don’t watch much at all.  I responded as I walked away, “You can tell who watches TV, they are wearing masks. “ Now, this did get a few looks from the masked covidiots in the aisle.

Sal Fariello in Florida recalls

how the mayor of Ocala vetoed the mask law there and then the City Council overrode the veto. Then the Marion County Sheriff mandated that no deputy would be allowed to wear a mask! He stated that wearing masks had no science to back it up.

How unusual: an honest cop!

Now, although all stores in Ocala have the mask requirement posted, maskless customers are routinely shopping in all of them and no employees are saying anything. This includes Publix Supermarkets! I recently talked to some store employees in Ocala (not a Publix employee however, where I still refuse to shop) and all say they are fed up with the masks and have had enough with feeling sick all day wearing those filthy diapers on their face.

JD in Louisiana  

work[s] in a large retail establishment. I see all manner of masks, from the usual black or white cloth, to the chic Ralph Lauren. The ones that really get me, though, are the “neck gaiters.” Men come into the store covered from nose to shoulders. Some also wear cowboy hats and dark glasses. My occasional “Howdy Tex” greetings are rarely met with reciprocal good humor. I am heartened, however, at the increasing number of customers coming in with no mask at all. Maybe that mask curve is starting to flatten.

Here’s hoping! How closely the serfs hug the very chains binding them…

I never wear a mask in the open air, but I keep one draped over the turn signal in the car for use at the grocery store. I carry my mask across the parking lot and slip it on when I go past the “mask monitor,” who is usually sitting at a table staring at a cell phone. Once inside I remove my mask. No store employee or customer has ever said a word. Most of the store workers are wearing masks below their nose or even under their chin. On my last two trips to the grocery store the cashier wasn’t wearing a mask at all, though she was behind one of those now ever-present plexiglas “sneeze guards.”

I have a neighbor that lost his eyesight in an offshore oil rig accident. I occasionally drive him to make a deposit at his credit union. Up until recently we always went to the drive-through. On each trip, however, I noticed a large, heavy-duty sheriff’s department pickup truck parked in the space before the front door. Why? On a visit to the inside I soon found out. As we entered the building, a deputy seated at a desk looked up from his cell phone and barked “pull down your mask for the camera!”  I muttered  “how about I take it off altogether?” I removed my mask and stuck it in my shirt pocket. Neither the deputy nor any employee said a word. My bank, a mile or so away, has never had any uniformed guards, public or private. They did, however, operate until very recently on a drive-through only mode. The building is now open but with a strict mask-wearing policy and “social-distancing” guidelines all over the lobby.

I have developed some ability to gauge a person’s emotions even when they are masked. I drove to the post office to drop off some bills just before Hurricane Laura hit. I went inside without a mask. It was after hours, only the lobby was open. I wasn’t about to enter a deserted building wearing a mask. On the way out I opened the door and nearly ran into a lady, perhaps in her early forties. Even with her face covered in a mask I could read her expression. “How dare you come so close to me without a mask!” Mind you, all I could see were her eyes. Her expression changed to one of contempt as she took two steps away from me before entering the post office. By the time I returned to the car and began backing out, she exited the building, sans mask. I honked the horn, smiled, and gave her a thumbs up. Her look was now clearly one of surprise. That look quickly turned to one of chagrin. I had “unmasked” her mask obsession.

I’d estimate 95% of the Morons don a muzzle either to advertise themselves as virtuous (a status that’s debatable, to put it kindly, which makes them hypocrites) or because they habitually conform (how pathetically weak!). Either way, they’re part of the problem.

Your naked face is the solution.

“Captain”  Will Taylor in 

occupied Alabama … went to Home Depot a couple of weeks back, and I had to go to the bank today to wire some money. Of course, der Furher’s “mandate” was extended for a third month until early October. On both occasions, I walked in, did my business, and left without issue and not wearing my state-mandated face diaper. While I was the only person who wasn’t a subservient weirdo, no one treated me any different than they would have normally.

My take away? The people around here are taking the path of least resistance but their hearts are not in it. They know this is all a farce.

Yo, Masked Alabamians: THROW IT AWAY! Embrace your heritage of freedom and rebellion, for pity’s sake.

Finally, Your Intrepid Reporter was scurrying up one of New York City’s Avenues at breakneck speed; I usually outpace everyone except giants with legs six times longer than mine. And that was before WWIII. Now that the Morons deprive themselves of oxygen, I beat even Goliath.

But yesterday, from the corner of my eye, I glimpsed a pair of white sneakers flashing alongside me. How could that be? When a red light finally stopped us, I nigh smacked my forehead: of course! The woman beside me was freely breathing sans mask! Nor was one even in sight, festooning her neck or dangling from her hand. 

I flashed a thumb’s up and grinned big-time. “Good for you! No mask!”

To my astonishment (remember, this is New York City, headquarters of Marxists and nutjobs), she replied, “I never trust any politician. They say to do something, I don’t.” 

Her thick accent was Eastern European. I wondered about the tyranny she’d fled.

And why Americans aren’t nearly as wise as she.

The FBI Director says “Antifa is a real thing”. What sort of thing? He says “We look at Antifa as more of an ideology or a movement than an organization.”

Wray’s explaining to a House panel what sort of investigations the FBI is carrying out. What comes across is that the FBI views antifa as one of a number of domestic threats, and one that’s disorganized and no worse than some others. Also coming across is that antifa doesn’t rise to the status of justifying a GENERAL “properly predicated domestic terrorism” investigation. In other words, the FBI has more important fish to fry than antifa viewed as an entity. The FBI is looking at INDIVIDUAL cases, but not at a general terror endeavor. His exact words:

“We look at Antifa as more of an ideology or a movement than an organization. To be clear, we do have quite a number of properly predicated domestic terrorism investigations into violent anarchist extremists, any number of whom self identify with the Antifa movement. And that’s part of this broader group of domestic violent extremists that I’m talking about, but it’s just one part of it. We also have racially motivated violent extremists … militia types, and others.”

This sounds like what a bureaucrat lacking spine would say. The idea is to cover one’s rear, not take sides and cover all the bases. But underneath, it reveals the leader of the FBI telling us that the FBI isn’t doing the job it’s supposed to be doing. Interstate crimes have been committed in mass amounts by highly organized antifa members, and this, according to Wray, provides no sound basis for even thinking of antifa as an organization.

Limiting its description to an “ideology” is clearly wrong. The members of antifa share an ideology, but that’s not all they share. They share a goal. They share the activism and action to riot. They communicate as to time and place. They share outfits and weaponry. They share transportation. They share preparation. They share battle tactics against police. They share targets. All of this is organized, and the FBI’s leader misdirects his own organization to view antifa in a limited way as an ideology or a movement. After seeing vast riots, he vastly underestimates the potential of antifa to disrupt all sorts of things across this country, including the elections. In fact, we can expect that antifa right now is planning further violent mass disruption activities.

A movement is an organization. According to one definition it’s “a group of diffusely organized people or organizations striving toward a common goal relating to human society or social change, or the organized activities of such a group.” Organized people form a movement. Antifa is decentralized and diffuse, forming cells, but the FBI’s failure to identify the coordinated leadership and resource sources doesn’t mean they do not exist.

Compare this explanation of a women’s movement. It involves properties that organizations typically display: resource inputs, funds dispersal, solidarity, advocating and networking. A movement is a decentralized or loosely structured organization. Wray is not going to investigate antifa properly because he’s making a useless distinction between movement and organization.

Wray is not placing enough resources into the investigation of antifa because he downplays it as an organization. He sees no central head or funding. Antifa doesn’t need a conventional structure, and it still can have a structure fit for violent and widespread activism. Doesn’t Wray understand that? Or is he feeding the House the usual bureaucratic pap as civil servants do?

Trump immediately repudiated Wray’s statement, but that statement already found its way into headlines all across the internet. And maybe that’s a good thing for Americans to realize that they have a spineless bureaucrat as FBI director, someone hiding behind useless procedures and protocols, as opposed to being a savvy tough law enforcer who cuts through the inertia of his plodding and rigid organization that doesn’t know how to handle a decentralized but organized threat like antifa.

According to one definition of organization, an organization unites a group of people to attain a shared goal. Antifa meets that criterion. Also, it has leaders who establish roles and responsibilities. The evidence for this is that members of antifa act in a coordinated way to band together against pre-selected targets at designated times, even if we do not observe the managerial structure. But there is also evidence from sources on the streets that during the riots antifa had security persons who control their perimeter and prevent infiltration, and they had prepared stacks of bricks in at least one case.

The FBI should be seeking the evidence that antifa is an organization. It should not be acting as if it’s just a bunch of self-selected thugs and vandals who just happen to coordinate themselves at various sites. Antifa is obviously using internet and phone means to coalesce at times and to control the movements of its members.

The FBI has a left-wing bias. For years, it has regarded the right-wing extremist groups as the prime domestic threat. The FBI acts as if it takes its cues from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Antifa has gotten a pass, partly because of its name. The FBI has tied up a lot of resources infiltrating and spying on these right-wing groups, and now it finds it very hard to shift its attention to where it should have been all along, which is groups like antifa and BLM. Thus, Wray persists in downplaying antifa and focusing on groups that were not responsible for riots in a very large number of American cities.

On Friday I received a wonderful and gracious email communication from a LRC reader regarding a book I had recommended in an article on power elite analysis first published in 2012. The book is Who Rules America: A Century of Invisible Government, by John McConaughy. This extremely rare 1934 volume is presently unavailable at Amazon. My correspondent obtained his copy from India, and I received one of my first edition copies from Ireland via Abe Books. It is one of the most incredible books I have ever read. While it is almost impossible to find (read it and you will know why it has been suppressed) it is masterfully written, unflinching in its boldness, and authoritative. I have found nothing which supersedes it in dissecting this formative period of the American state. Below is my Amazon review of this classic:

“‘Invisible Government’ is a phrase for which it would be difficult to formulate a dictionary definition without sacrifice of accuracy to brevity. It may perhaps be best described as the political and economic control of the community — or the political control for selfish, if not sinister, economic purposes — by individual men, or groups or organizations, who are careful to evade the responsibility which should always accompany power. They operate behind a mask or puppets in politics and business, and these must take the blame in courts of law, and before the bar of public opinion, for any errors in the technique of knavery.” — John McConaughy

Author McConaughy impiously rips the masks off our elitist ‘Funding Fathers’ and their ‘invisible government’ for special privilege.

In what is one of the finest and most powerful histories of the early years of the American state, McConaughy demonstrates that the adoption of the Constitution amounted to a coup d’etat by these forces of ‘invisible government’.

Although the names and faces have changed over time, this is the same predatory plutocracy behind the Federal Reserve’s monetary meltdown and the Wall Street bankster bailouts of today.

McConaughy discusses how Federalists George Washington, Robert Morris, Alexander Hamilton, and John Marshall believed in nationalism — a strong, consolidated national government, weak states, an elastic interpretation of the Constitution, a central bank with special privileges creating an elite ‘paper aristocracy,’ and ‘internal improvements’ (corporate welfare at the national level).

By contrast, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Taylor of Caroline County, Virginia, John Randolph of Roanoke, Virginia, etc. composed the Republicans. They believed in a constitutional Republic, not an Empire.

The Republicans opposed Hamilton’s vicious system of public finance.

The Republicans believed in federalism (a delegation of explicit limited powers to the central government, the bulk of power residing with the states and local government), a strict interpretation of the Constitution limiting the power of the central government, no central bank created by the ‘Funding Fathers’ benefitting a financial elite, no paper currency (gold was ‘the people’s money’), no special privileges, no corporate welfare.

Yet in perhaps the most instructive portion of the book, McConaughy shows how Jefferson and Madison compromised and caved in to expediency. It is here he vividly contrasts Republican John Taylor (who held fast to principle) and nationalist John Marshall. He writes in summation:

“In this writer’s view, it is not to Hamilton and Jefferson that we should look to see how the battle-lines were at last firmly drawn between the champions of the people and the forces of invisible government, but rather to John Marshall and to John Taylor. Marshall, by virtue of his unique position and his swift boldness, backed by one of the most adroit and incisive minds of history, was easily victorious in that early and all-important conflict. Those who should have been Taylor’s leaders refused to be even his followers. They surrendered in the hour of victory.

“Yet Taylor has millions of followers today — millions who have never even heard of John Taylor of Caroline. Beneath the sham-battles of our current politics the intuitive wisdom of the mass of men may be temporarily doped, but it does not die. And this power may at any time again break forth to bring about a sharp re-alignment of the only two forces which have ever existed in our polity — those who believe in a free and individualistic commonwealth, and those who believe in government for special privilege. Nothing savoring of the Marxian socialization of those fields of human action which we hold to inherently individualistic has ever gained a place in our political psychology, save in those instances where the servants of invisible government have held it to be the duty of the national Government to subsidize a favored few in their economic activities, and to come to their aid with the tax-funds of the people when corruption and incompetence have brought these favored ones the the edge of ruin.”

John Taylor’s courageous spirit is indeed alive today in the millions who resist the invisible government’s destructive welfare-warfare state, its unconstitutional preemptive wars, its overstretched empire overseas, its police state tyranny at home, and its Federal Reserve — the predatory enabler of it all.

Says country music star John Rich, after it was revealed by a Nashille television reporter that Mayor John Cooper was lying through his teeth about the extent of the virus in Nashville.  An email emerged showing that Cooper and his kept-puppet “public health officials,” whose budget he controls, knew that there were only 22 cases found in all the bars and restaurants on Music Row, which has been locked down for months.  Cooper then used his own lies and lockdowns to “justify” increasing the property tax in the city by 35% in a single year.

How many other Democrat mayors have lied in order to “justify” destroying their own economies?  My guess would be ALL OF THEM.  The reason for this is that the BNC (Bolshevik National Committee, formerly the “DNC”) realized in February that no Democrat could ever defeat Trump as long as the official unemployment rate was 3.5%.  They directed all their local political whores to do what Cooper has done if they expected to have a career in Bolshevik (er, I mean, Democrat) politics. “Never let a good crisis go to waste” is their motto, after all. The De Blasiossification of the economy has been their strategy.

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What we have been seeing played out on the streets of America, particularly in large Blue State metropolitan areas and dense urban cities is classic planned chaos and the “Strategy of Tension.” Unable to dislodge Donald Trump by the Russiagate hoax or the malicious soft coup impeachment process, his sworn enemies, using COVID-19 as their pretext, have turned to the destruction of the economy by repressive lockdowns, creating mass unemployment and annihilation of small businesses, thus fracturing civil society. Thus the Democrats, seditious elements the deep state, and their complacent, compliant regime media pawns, have turned to an age-old psy/war strategy to be wielded as an ax against the president, insidiously using the weaponized corpse of George Floyd as the new rationale for these riots and insurrections.

Historically there has been a symbiotic correlation relationship between agent provocateur groups, infiltration by police informers, and the counter-terrorism forces of the deep state. The repressive security state has molded and used such witting (or unwitting) terrorist pawns or drones in covert activities to create a “strategy of tension” to instill fear and consolidate repressive power and control which would enhance strident calls for more intense police repression and clandestine surveillance of its subject general population. With countless decades of real-world experience and clinical research in fomenting “Color Revolutions,” masters of psychological warfare and mind control, expert manipulators and programmers of cult-like behavior, recruit those alienated arrested development post-adolescents and anti-social disillusioned vicarious thrill seekers who fit a susceptible psychological profile matrix and who relish vandalism, violence and destruction as a means of striking out at a world beyond the control of their misshapened lives. An ideological construct of direct action “anarchism” or “propaganda by the deed” is put forth as a purported justification for their aberrant thug-like terrorist behavior.

Actually the deep roots of these neo-fascist seditious policies go back even further, as do their explicit key linkages to American military and counter-intelligence entities, which may in fact have played a crucial role in the November 22, 1963 coup d’état and brutal murder of President John F. Kennedy. Both the European personnel and their American counterparts actively discussed the implementation of domestic coup strategies in their respective countries. These were the Europeans directly responsible for later implementation of the Strategy of Tension violence/terror campaign of bombings, assassinations, kidnappings, and horrific murders of innocent civilians throughout that continent.

Please check out pages 138 to 152, “Del Valle, Giannettini, and the Strategy of Tension,” in Peter Dale Scott’s seminal book on the JFK assassination, Dallas ’63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House. 

A bar owner in Texas has defied state coronavirus rules to shut down her business, instead staying open and challenging the state’s authority to enact such an order.

The freedom fighter is standing her ground in the East Texas town of New Caney, north of Houston, where she’s defended Bokeeters Bar against the Texas Alcohol and Beverage Commission’s attempts to shut her down. …

Refusing to let the state endanger the welfare of her staff, Young decided to stay open in defiance of the order, erecting a sign announcing, “We Refuse to Shut Down,” in front of her business.

Following the move, TABC filed a 30-day suspension of her license to sell alcohol.

When agents last month attempted to have Young sign a form acknowledging a 60-day suspension, she refused, turned them away and uploaded the footage to YouTube.

“No, I’m not signing anything,” Young told the agents. “Y’all are making fools out of yourselves, that’s what’s happening here.”

Love it! Talk about speaking truth to power!

Meanwhile, trust the State to exploit every circumstance to enrich itself:

Currently, bars are allowed to operate so long as they have a food vendor on site, after which they can apply for a $776 restaurant application fee.

“According to the TABC, about 660 Texas bars each paid a $776 application fee to get reclassified as a restaurant. The state received more than $500,000 in the process,” reports KHOU.

But our heroine

says she’s not paying the extortion fee, and has instead gathered other business owners to join her in a class action lawsuit against the TABC and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

YEE HAW!!!!!

“I’m not paying TABC one red cent,” Young declared. “I’m not understanding the switching (permits) to food, because I really don’t believe coronavirus can tell the difference whether you’ve got chips and salsa or just a pint of beer.”

I bet Bill Martin, who sent me this story, laughed as hard at her wit as I did!

Studies going back to 1919 have shown that masks do nothing to stop respiratory viruses.

Matt Makovi doesn’t appreciate Scientific American’s departure from facts in favor of (their decidedly warped) opinion any more than Vinnie Terranova and I do:

Scientific American … didn’t seem to have any problem with junk science offered up by government workers in the past. I mean like police drug field tests, hair or fingerprint analysis or ballistics. … I had cancelled my own subscription a number of years ago, precisely because of their shift to popular (political) “science.”

Yet lefties are always the first to holler “bias!” when narratives stick to truth and eschew statist nonsense.

The Bionic Mosquito excoriates an economist, I presume a Keynsian, Marxist or some other species of varmint, named John Mauldin. Said quack was among those urging totalitarianism as an antidote to that oh-so-lethal,-oh-so-special flu, COVID19. And the Mosquito does his usual able job, so I hope he’ll pardon my tossing in my two cents. Especially because when Mauldin writes, “With the benefit of hindsight, I am sure that we would’ve made different choices in terms of our response to the disease,” the Mosquito stings him:

What would these different responses include?  Don’t shut down the economy?  Don’t add trillions in new debt?  Don’t destroy hundreds of thousands of small business?  Don’t increase the suicide rate?  Don’t decrease the number of doctors’ visits for cancer screenings, heart disease, etc.?  Nope, none of these:

[Maudlin writes:] It would’ve been nice to have a stockpile of N95 masks and other PPE gear.

Let me pursue a different tack: emergencies and crises are precisely why we have principles. They guide us in new or frightening circumstances when we wonder how to respond.  Among the many principles that should have been at the forefront last March were such constitutional ones as, “Unaccountable ‘public health’ bureaucrats may not order us around,” and “Freedom means each American decides for himself how best to defend his family from this new malady.” Or how about, “Forcing people to wear masks and anti-social distance and isolate themselves from their relatives in nursing homes is as wrong as forcing them not to” and “To secure these rights—not to ‘protect the public health’—governments are instituted among men…”

As more of the damage Our Rulers inflicted this year becomes terrifyingly clear, Mauldin is just one of the thousands who will justify it by sighing, “Oh, if only we’d known then what we do now…” 

Balderash and baloney.

Don’t let them get away it. 

Brutus observes,

If the virus was the threat we are made to believe it is:

–          Only those at high risk would wear a mask

–          Only those in a high risk situation would wear a mask

–          All people would not be forced to wear masks

–          Masks would not be improperly worn

–          Masks would be doffed and discarded with the same attention as one does surgical gloves covered in excrement

–          Men would shave their beards as with all the air that bypasses the mask they pretty much negate any mask benefit

–          You would not be allowed to adjust your mask and then touch products on store shelves, hand the cashier money, touch the credit card machine, touch the door, ……

–          Stores would be setting up decontamination stations so you could clean and then bag your products as they came off the shelf

–          People would not engage in drive up shopping, trusting others to gather their purchases and place them in their car, not knowing who touched what

–          People would not be eating fresh produce that could not be sterilized

–          People would not take their masks off to talk to you…

–          You would not need to force people to stay apart

–          People would stay a lot farther than 6 feet apart

–          People would stay away from sports events on their own… because the players would be staying away

–     People not wearing a mask would be given a wide berth for the safety of both parties

–          People would not be wearing the same mask for a week

–          People would not be casually storing their used masks in pockets, hand bags and hung over the rear view mirror…

–         Those not wearing a mask would be pitied as they would obviously have a serious issue and would not be able to uses this vital piece of protective gear …

–          Families would be allowed, perhaps required to take their elderly members out of nursing homes if they could care for them more effectively…

–          Test kits and treatment drugs would be dispensed over the counter or via the mail to limit contact …

Perhaps most telling of all, however, is the age-old question: cui bono?

Gov. Lamont (Democrat, Connecticut) issued an executive order that expands policing forces by fusing previous non-policing posts with a policing function. Without arrest or trial or conviction, these extended police auxiliaries have the power to issue fines of $100 for failure to wear masks in public. That power itself is totalitarian, but of equal importance is this fusion of civil government agencies with police. The ones with the new power are “Commissioner of Public Health, local health directors, district health directors, and their designees; municipal chief executive officers and their designees; and state and municipal police officers, peace officers …special police forces … and public safety departments of institutions of higher education to issue fines.”

Such an expansion directly makes policing more of a “total” presence against a personal matter and choice (to wear or not to wear) that has zero external effect on other people. This can correctly be seen as a thoroughly totalitarian measure.

This expansion and fusion is similar to organizational changes made by the Nazis after assuming power. In the first place, fining for non-mask wearing is a preventive measure and that’s totalitarian. “The Nazis offered the police the broadest latitude in arrests, incarceration, and the treatment of prisoners. The police moved to take ‘preventive action,’ that is, to make arrests without the evidence required for a conviction in court and indeed without court supervision at all.”

In the second place, the devolution and extension of police power to municipalities and local health officials and their designees, an unbounded power if there ever was one, is similar to the Nazi fusion of policing organizations. “The Nazi state fused the police with the SS and Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst; SD), two of the most radical and ideologically committed Nazi organizations.” In the Connecticut case, health and safety personnel are being assigned a policing function. They effectively become police, and they are named along side of police and peace officers.

The raft of unconstitutional (and deadly) actions taken by state governors during this COVID episode is one of the biggest revelations of 2020. They show a truly alarming condition of ignorance and lack of wisdom and prudence. Add to this the incredible actions of a number of leftist city governments and lax district attorneys such as in Portland, Seattle, Chicago and Minneapolis. Add in also the bowing and scraping toward the nutty and obnoxious BLM and its crowds. Then add in the radicalization effect of 4 crazy democratic socialists on the entire Democratic party. And this would not have happened but for the popularity of Bernie Sanders, itself a reflection of a political milieu that requires surgery and repair to remove some serious cancerous growths if the body politic is to survive and thrive.

“Scientific American Endorses Joe Biden,” the pseudo-scientific Marxists there announce in their October issue. “We’ve never backed a presidential candidate in our 175-year history—until now.”

What prompted them to declare their bias openly instead of merely insinuating it into their articles as usual? “The evidence and the science show that Donald Trump has badly damaged the U.S. and its people—because he rejects evidence and the science.”

Riiiigght. As if these cheerleaders for Darwin’s false faith and philosophy (13854 results for “evolution”, a mere 283 for “Creationism”) would know science if it walked up and smacked them in the face.

Thanks to Vinnie Terranova for this additional proof that the corporate media is “basically a collection of liars” who “know exactly what they’re doing” as they eradicate freedom.

“Please, No More Good News! I Can’t Take It!” provoked the following gem from David Maharaj:

Instead of a week’s furlough for the commie and his politburo, there needs to be a national lockdown of all the tyrants globally. The goal is to flatten the curve of these infectious parasites.

Spray ‘em with Raid and call it a day.

By the way, I learned this morning that the “furlough” doesn’t involve closing the mayor’s harmful, dictatorial office for a week. Rather, “All 500 employees of the mayor’s office will be required to take five unpaid days off between Oct. 1 and March…” In other words, only a couple of leeches will absent themselves each day so that the usual quota of thieving and tyrannizing should continue apace.

Nothing is ever what it seems with government.